Diane Duane
Diane Duane
Diane Duaneis an American science fiction and fantasy author. Her works include the Young Wizards young adult fantasy series and the Rihannsu Star Trek novels...
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth18 May 1952
world kind poor
It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow
water complaining drink
You walk on water, and complain that you can't find anything to drink!
happiness wisdom mistake
Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.
blood proud failing
So rage, proud Power: fail again! And see my blood teach Death to die!
white space tunnels
A warp," Nita whispered. "A tunnel through space-time. Are you a white hole?" It stopped bobbing, stared at her as if she had said something derogatory. (Do I look like a hole?)
gone quantum dear
Dear Artificer, I’ve blown my quanta and gone to the Good Place!
book reading potato-chips
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.
children passion only-child
My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.
hurt morning live-life
The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life- how terrible! Nita gulped for control as she remembered Fred's word of just this morning, an eternity ago. And this was what being a wizard was about. Keeping terrible things from happening, even when it hurts. Not just power, or control of what ordinary people couldn't control, or delight in being able to make strange things happen. Those were the side effects- not the reason, the purpose.
song sacrifice sea
And we will cause it to be well-made, this Sacrifice. You, young and never loving; I, old and never loved. Such a Song the Sea will never have seen.
issues choices age
The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.
thinking people teens
What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.
years trying found
What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.
heart spears
The Spear in the Other’s heart is the spear in your own: you are he.