Phrase by 'Diana Wynne Jones'

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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.

Author: Diana Wynne Jones - English Writer
  You , Enough , Speak , Rainbow


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.

Author: Diana Wynne Jones - English Writer
  You , Yourself , Alone , Mirror


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.

Author: Diana Wynne Jones - English Writer
  People , Feel , Feeling , Strong


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.

Author: Diana Wynne Jones - English Writer
  You , Think , Good , Genius


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.

Author: Diana Wynne Jones - English Writer
  Never , Child , Follow , Doctor


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

Author: Diana Wynne Jones - English Writer
  Lucky , Child , Genius , Knows


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

Author: Diana Wynne Jones - English Writer
  You , Think , Person , Wild


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.

Author: Diana Wynne Jones - English Writer
  Me , Think , Way , Brain


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.

Author: Diana Wynne Jones - English Writer
  You , Me , Responsibility , Future


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.

Author: Diana Wynne Jones - English Writer
  Life , Me , Home , Good


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