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13 quotes by Diana Wynne Jones

Diana Wynne Jones (16 August 1934 – 26 March 2011) was a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults. Some of her better-known works are the Chrestomanci series, the Dalemark series; the novels Howl's Moving Castle and Dark Lord of Derkholm; and The Tough Guide To Fantasyland.
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I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because... →

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If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is... →

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I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that... →

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This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim... →

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I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why should I face up to it?... →

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Actually, in the wild, we'd be the only person that we wouldn't recognize, if you think about it.

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I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is perhaps a startling concept, but I think... →

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It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as... →

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Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high... →

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And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no... →

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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.

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Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever.... →

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This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be... →

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