Jill Paton Walsh Quotes

• If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.

  Jill Paton Walsh

  Secret, Asking, Asks

  Jill Paton Walsh (2011). “The Attenbury Emeralds: The New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery”, p.98, Macmillan

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• There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit the earth; and nothing that we value will endure in the world unless they can be persuaded to value it too.

  Jill Paton Walsh

  Writing, Important, Literature

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• The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.

  Jill Paton Walsh

  Moving, Wicked, Adults

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• It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people.

  Jill Paton Walsh

  Children, Real, People

  Jill Paton Walsh (2007). “A Presumption of Death: A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery”, p.11, Macmillan

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