"Interesting things did seem to happen, but always……" — Diana Wynne Jones
"Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else."
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143 Quotes by Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones has 143 quotes on this site.
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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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You are a terror, aren't you? Leave this yard alone. I know just where everything is in it, and I…
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'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.
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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
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I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter…
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Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual…
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself…
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a…
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You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
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Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do…
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