Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones was a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth16 August 1934
hats kitten robbers
You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
cat use praying
Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.
people like-me knows
But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.
fairy-stories facts looks
Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.
people age said
I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.
girl bullying real
What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you a right to exist provided you do what the real ones or brutes say. What makes you into me or Charles Morgan is that the rules allow all the girls to be better than me and all the boys better than Charles Morgan.
shining dishonesty salvation
My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
kings years usual
Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then dismissed him from his presence. Death was too embarrassed to return until many years later- Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances
hero silly mean
Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.
rainbow way speak
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 clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.
hope memories
Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.
dog hate race
I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.
tea way cups
Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.
children writing brain
Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.