Diane Duane Quotes

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• Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

  Diane Duane

  Book, Reading, Potato Chips

  Diane Duane (2003). “So You Want to Be a Wizard”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

  Diane Duane

  Lying, Writing, Stronger

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• The Spear in the Other’s heart is the spear in your own: you are he.

  Diane Duane

  Heart, Spears

  Diane Duane, A.C. Crispin (2004). “Star Trek: Signature Edition: Sand and Stars”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Belief made no difference to the truth.

  Diane Duane

  Differences, Belief, Made

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• A little science. A little magic. A little chicken soup.

  Diane Duane

  Magic, Soup, Littles

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• 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.

  Diane Duane

  Happiness, Wisdom, Mistake

  Diane Duane (2000). “Doctor's Orders”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• You should know how terrible a power belief is, especially in the wrong hands -- and how do you tell which hands are wrong? Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow.

  Diane Duane

  Believe, Hands, Way

  Diane Duane (2003). “So You Want to Be a Wizard”, p.268, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Diane Duane

  Years, Trying, Found

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• 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.

  Diane Duane

  Mother, Hero, Fighting

  Diane Duane (2003). “High Wizardry”, p.344, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Diane Duane

  Good Friend, Ideas, Looks

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• "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."

  Diane Duane

  Thinking, Hands, Looks

  Diane Duane (1992). “So You Want to Be a Wizard”, Yearling Books

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• Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, point to where you were going: but when they suddenly vanish, never dismiss the possibility of flight.

  Diane Duane

  Snow, Flight, Possibility

  Diane Duane (2003). “A Wizard Alone”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!

  Diane Duane

  Noise, Universe

  Diane Duane (2007). “Wizards at War”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

  Diane Duane

  World, Kind, Poor

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• So rage, proud Power: fail again! And see my blood teach Death to die!

  Diane Duane

  Blood, Proud, Failing

  Diane Duane (1996). “Deep Wizardry”, Harcourt Childrens Books

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• A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past." "It's called a 'prophecy,'" Urruah said. "You may have heard of the concept.

  Diane Duane

  Past, May, Legends

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• 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.

  Diane Duane

  Issues, Choices, Age

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• Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.

  Diane Duane

  Promise, Want, Stuff

  Diane Duane (2003). “High Wizardry”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You walk on water, and complain that you can't find anything to drink!

  Diane Duane

  Water, Complaining, Drink

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• If death is truly a curse,' Spock said, as soberly as some power pronouncing a hundred years of sleep, but with a glint of private, serene humor in his eyes. 'There is little logic in condemning something one has not experienced...or does not remember experiencing.

  Diane Duane

  Sleep, Eye, Years

  Diane Duane (1983). “The wounded sky”, Star Trek

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• It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image.

  Diane Duane

  Children, Generations, World

  "High Wizardry (Young Wizards, Book 3)". Book by Diane Duane, 1990.

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• 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.

  Diane Duane

  Thinking, People, Teens

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• 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.

  Diane Duane

  Children, Passion, Only Child

  "Wizards in a new millennium: an interview with Diane Duane". Interview with Kelly Knox, www.wired.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Dear Artificer, I’ve blown my quanta and gone to the Good Place!

  Diane Duane

  Gone, Quantum, Dear

  Diane Duane (2003). “So You Want to Be a Wizard”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do it now and avoid the June rush! Fear death by water!

  Diane Duane

  June, Water, Fear Of Death

  Diane Duane (2003). “Deep Wizardry”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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