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
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.
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.
book reading potato-chips
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.
lying writing stronger
There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.
mother hero fighting
But even in your world it’s a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any odds… get a Mother.
thinking hands looks
Don't be afraid to make corrections," Picchu said. "Don't be afraid to lend a hand." She fell silent, seeming to think for a moment. "And don't look down.
eye dragons drawing
All the drawing lacks is the final touch: To add eyes to the dragon
noise universe
How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!
good-friend ideas looks
You do have the idea of being ‘just good friends?’” He gave her a sideways look. “For so high and honorable an estate,” Roshaun said, “ ‘just’ seems a poor modifier to choose.
color names white
(True,) the white hole said. (My name is Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni-) and at the same time he went flickering through a pattern of colors that was evidently the visual translation.
magic soup littles
A little science. A little magic. A little chicken soup.
song ocean long-ago
Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the ancient-most tale of the Sea's sending: singing the tragedy, singing the joy unending This is our shame- this is the whole Ocean's glory: this is the Song of the Twelve. Hark to the story! Hearken, and bring it to pass: swift lest the sorrow long ago laid to it's rest devour us tomarrow!
children world generations
It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the world in their own image. ---Carl
world kind poor
It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow