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
heart fickle world
A fickle heart is the only constant in this world
beautiful want young
If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!
stars cutting paper
I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.
hope memories
Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.
hurt stars want
I only want to catch you,” Michael explained. “I won’t hurt you.” “No! No!” the star crackled desperately. “That’s wrong! I’m supposed to die!” “But I could save you if you’d let me catch you,” Michael told it gently. “No!” cried the star. “I’d rather die!
hangover hands rose
I've got a hangover!" "No, you hit your head on the floor," Sophie said. Howl rose up on his hands and knees with a scramble. "I can't stay," he said. "I've got to rescue that fool Sophie." "I'm here!" Sophie shook his shoulder. "But so is Mis Angorian! Get up and do something about her!
love thinking ever-after
I think we ought to live happily ever after.
forever enough love-someone
To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.
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.
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.
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.
shining dishonesty salvation
My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
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.