"Settle for what you can get, but first…" — Diana Wynne Jones

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

— Diana Wynne Jones

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143 Quotes by Diana Wynne Jones

Diana Wynne Jones has 143 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because…
Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you…
One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and…
It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and…
It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom…
Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up…
I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean,…
It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your…
A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.
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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