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Diana Wynne Jones

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Pie in a bed of raw onions. Human skull looking put-upon. -- Howl


— Diana Wynne Jones


#humor #funny

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.


— Diana Wynne Jones


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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.


— Diana Wynne Jones


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I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is perhaps a startling concept, but I think it's true.


— Diana Wynne Jones


#brain #concept #fantasy #i #i think

I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why should I face up to it? What good does it do me? I know it happened, and that's it.


— Diana Wynne Jones


#does #face #find #good #happened

Actually, in the wild, we'd be the only person that we wouldn't recognize, if you think about it.


— Diana Wynne Jones


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Did you know about Diana Wynne Jones?

For Charmed Life the first Chrestomanci novel Jones won the 1978 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize a once-in-a-lifetime award by The Guardian newspaper that is judged by a panel of children's writers. There Jones and her two younger sisters Isobel (later Professor Isobel Armstrong the literary critic) and Ursula spent a childhood left chiefly to their own devices. Works


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Diana Wynne Jones (16 August 1934 – 26 March 2011) was an English writer principally of fantasy novels for children and adults as well as a small amount of non-fiction.

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