Diana Wynne Jones Quotes

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• I think we ought to live happily ever after.

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  Love, Thinking, Ever After

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• To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

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  Forever, Enough, Love Someone

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Fire and Hemlock”, p.254, Penguin

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• Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.

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  Children, Writing, Brain

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• Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

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  Tea, Way, Cups

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Fire and Hemlock”, p.203, Penguin

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• Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.

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  Hope, Memories

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• There is very seldom any true secret.

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  Secret

  Diana Wynne Jones (2013). “Deep Secret”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.

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  World, Firsts, Settling

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• It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life, gains you a peculiar charge of energy which inexplicably enriches you. At least, this is my ideal of a fantasy, and I am always trying to write it.

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  Writing, Always Trying, Work Out

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• If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.

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  Rainbow, Way, Speak

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• Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

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  Fairy Stories, Looks, Facts

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Fire and Hemlock”, p.113, Penguin

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• Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

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  Silly, Hero, Mean

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Fire and Hemlock”, p.227, Penguin

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• I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

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  Mean, Like Being Alone, Mirrors

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• You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!

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  Hats, Kitten, Robbers

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• After that, all the while Millie was eating the pudding... we both tore Christopher's character to shreds. It was wonderful fun.... He drove everyone mad in Chrestomanci Castle by insisting on silk shirts and exactly the right kind of pajamas. 'And he could get them right anyway by magic,' Millie told me, 'if he wasn't too lazy to learn how.... But the thing that really annoys me is the way he never bothers to learn a person's name. If a person isn't important to him, he always forgets their name.' When Millie said this, I realized that Christopher had never once forgotten my name.

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  Fun, Character, Names

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• Don’t interrupt,’ one of the boys said. ‘He’ll lose his life.’ Seeing it was a matter of life and death, Sophie and Michael backed toward the door. But Howl, quite unperturbed at killing his nephew, strode over to the wall and pulled the boxes up by the roots.

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  Wall, Boys, Doors

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• I think my moment of revelation came when I saw this young man come on court in the most flamboyant clothes. He had a sweet smile and questionably blonde hair and a generally chirpy glamour that in fact concealed huge skill. When he was interviewed he confessed to hating to get angry and it was also said that he slithered out of winning when it came to the big matches. And I thought, My God! This Andre Agassi is the image of Howl in my book HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE!

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  Sweet, Hate, Moving

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• It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom are children who should be learning all the time, unless I am learning from it too.

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  Children, People, Doe

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• Alas, poor Yorick!" he said. "She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I have caught an everlasting cold, but luckily I am terribly dishonest. I cling to that.

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  Mermaid, Rotten, Denmark

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.

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  Dog, Hate, Race

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Castle in the Air”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

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  Imagination, Brain, Insane

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• And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.

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  Thinking, Expectations, Genius

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• One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.

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  Treats, Persons, Ought

  "Hexwood". Book by Diana Wynne Jones, pp. 181-182, 1993.

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• ...don't spoil my learning process!

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  Process, Spoil, Learning Process

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• I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes." "Those are spiders.

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  Eye, Spiders, Spots

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• I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.

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  Encouragement, Strong, People

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