KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Diana Wynne Jones Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Diana Wynne Jones

Showing 1-10 of 13 Quotes by Diana Wynne Jones

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.

~Diana Wynne Jones

Topics: Actual Although Blurred Clear Colour Could Enormous Enough Every Folklore Image Imagine Infinitely Interpretation Interpreted Many Myth Possible Rainbow Sort Speak Symbols Take Things Ways You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.

~Diana Wynne Jones

Topics: Because Encouragement Everybody Feel Feeling Finding Genius Just Need One Of The Things Out People Question Something Sort Strong Strong Feeling Strongly Things Very Which

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

~Diana Wynne Jones

Topics: About Alone Anyway Because Being Being Alone Define Face Like Mean Mean People Mirror Mirrors Off Often One Of The Things Ourselves People Round See Things You Yourself

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Diana Wynne Jones

Topics: About Actually Only Person Recognize Think Wild You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Diana Wynne Jones

Topics: Child Genius Knows Lucky

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: According Achieve Anywhere Expectations Genius Get Going Good Indeed Much Something Think Very You Your

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: Basically Brain Concept Fantasy Me Perhaps Seems Startling Things Think True Way Works Your I Think

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one.

~Diana Wynne Jones

Topics: Because Behind Careful Does Draft Everybody Extremely Feel Future Get Going Huge Important Make May Me Particularly Responsibility Right Second Somebody Them Very Who You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything.

~Diana Wynne Jones

Topics: Above Absolutely Any Anyone Anything Anyway Bit Child Claim Did Doctor Doctor Who Follow Harm Mean Never Ridiculous Something Them Tiny Who Wholly

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Diana Wynne Jones

Topics: About Anything Book Close Dire Fantasy Good Good Book Had Home Kid Life Me Normal Real Really Seems Should Sort Whatever Whether Wholly Wicked

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: August 16th, 1934

Links

Find Diana Wynne Jones on Amazon

Related Authors

Douglas Adams
Joseph Addison
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Agatha Christie
Arthur C. Clarke
Rudyard Kipling
Thomas Paine
John Ruskin

Popular Authors

Erma Bombeck Angela Davis Johnny Depp Pope Francis Michelle Obama Arthur Schopenhauer J. R. R. Tolkien Louis Xiv

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1694 - Voltaire

1768 - Friedrich Schleiermacher

1787 - Bryan Procter

1863 - Arthur Quiller-Couch

1870 - Alexander Berkman

1886 - Harold Nicolson

1889 - Hugh Kingsmill

1898 - Rene Magritte

1904 - Coleman Hawkins

1907 - Jim Bishop

Birthdays on November 21st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Attitude Computers Equality Leadership Men Patriotism Respect Romantic