Tim Wynne-Jones Quotes

• Maybe life is a board game, but I never get to roll the dice.

  Tim Wynne-Jones

  Games, Boards, Dice

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• The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can breathe down there after all and there’s a whole other world. I’m talking about the kind of reading when you realize that books are indeed interactive. . . . I’m talking about the kind of deep-read where it isn’t just the plot or the characters that matter, but the words and the way they fit together and the meandering evanescent thoughts you think between the lines: the kind of reading where you are fleetingly aware of your own mind at work.

  Tim Wynne-Jones

  Reading, Book, Character

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• It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don’t want to ever be didactic, but if there’s something I do want to say, it’s that you can bring things around. You can make a change. Adult novels are about letting go. Children’s novels are about getting a grip.

  Tim Wynne-Jones

  Letting Go, Children, Writing

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• Cherry Money Baby is fabulous in every sense of the word! It’s earthy and smart and moving, laugh-out-loud funny, surprising, inventive, suspenseful, and — Oh, Hell — just gorgeously written!

  Tim Wynne-Jones

  Baby, Smart, Moving

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• Habit was stronger than emotion.

  Tim Wynne-Jones

  Stronger, Emotion, Habit

  Tim Wynne-Jones (2010). “The Uninvited”, p.295, Candlewick Press

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• And maybe getting a grip and letting go are not so dissimilar, when the holding on or the letting go is all part of moving on-getting on with it. Getting on with the difficult and dizzying business of living.

  Tim Wynne-Jones

  Letting Go, Moving, Holding On

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