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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
Bacon
Burns
Hope

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One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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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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Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.
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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
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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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One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.
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Learn to drive? Never, said Quentin. My mission in life is to be a passenger.
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Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.
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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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I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.
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Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!
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Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
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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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I only want to catch you,” Michael explained. “I won’t hurt you.” “No! No!” the star crackled desperately. “That’s wrong! I’m supposed to die!” “But I could save you if you’d let me catch you,” Michael told it gently. “No!” cried the star. “I’d rather die!
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What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?
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Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.
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Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.
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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
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Busy old fool, unruly Sophie
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Beauty isn't made of sugar.
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