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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

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Diana Wynne Jones
Age: 76 †
Born: 1934
Born: August 16
Died: 2011
Died: March 26
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Diana Gwyneth Jones
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Nobody
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Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.
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I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.
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It's just as I thought, she said. I prefer you to every single one of these. Some of these look far too proud of themselves, and some look selfish and cruel. You are unassuming and kind. I intend to ask my father to marry me to you, instead of to the Prince in Ochinstan. Would you mind?
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Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.
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You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
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It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.
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Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
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Busy old fool, unruly Sophie
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I hope your bacon burns.
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A heart's a heavy burden.
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I seem to have excalibured this knife.
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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, gains you a peculiar charge of energy which inexplicably enriches you. At least, this is my ideal of a fantasy, and I am always trying to write it.
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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
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One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.
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I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!
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I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.
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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 brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.
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You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another-
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So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch? Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!
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What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?
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