"Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters……" — Diana Wynne Jones
"Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth in the way they wanted to hear it, so that they thought they had won and left you in peace."
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Diana Wynne Jones
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143 Quotes by Diana Wynne Jones
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I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom…
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Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up…
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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,…
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It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your…
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A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.
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