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Diana Wynne Jones has 143 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in…
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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
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Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.
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You are a terror, aren't you? Leave this yard alone. I know just where everything is in it, and I won't be…
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The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.
— Edward Abbey
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Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it)…
— C.S. Lewis
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I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world…
— Sylvia Plath
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I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.
— Susan Orlean
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Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold…
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.
— Andrei Codrescu
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She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is…
— David Lubar
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Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.
— J.M.G. Le Clézio
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I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to…
— Gary Shteyngart
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