"It seems to me that humour is everybody's……" — Diana Wynne Jones
"It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy."
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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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I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back.
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