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Quote by Diana Wynne Jones

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

Author

Diana Wynne Jones, a renowned British fantasy writer, was born on August 16, 1934, in Wales, UK, and passed away on March 26, 2011. Her works are known for their imaginative storytelling, deep themes, and richly developed characters, particularly in the realm of young adult fantasy literature. Notable works include 'The Magicians' Assistant' and 'The Time of the Ghost'. more

“Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to be able to laugh at things that are normally painful. Head teachers would call this escapism, but they would be entirely wrong. I would call fantasy the most serious, and the most useful, branch of writing there is. And this is why I don’t, and never would, write Real Books.”

Thinking Writing Mean Book Real Enough Would Be Able Imagination Fantasy Laughing Teacher Serious Painful Branches Escapism Real Books Thinking Things Through

Book:Reflections

Source: Reflections

“It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom are children who should be learning all the time, unless I am learning from it too.”

People Should Children Doe Stories Seems

Author:Diana Wynne Jones

“Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.”

Knows Needs Action

Author:Louisa May Alcott

“Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.”

Water Casts Bread

Book:LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…

Source: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…

“Head, you may think; heart, you may feel; But hand, you shall work alway!”

Thinking Feels Heart May Hands

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)

“Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.”

Men Civilization Distance Distance Relationship

Author:Brian Aldiss

“The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or a bunch of strong men, or an invasion of aliens, or the conquest of other planets, or the annihilation of half the world--in short, pretty nearly anything but the facing up to the integral and irredeemable nature of mankind--can bring about utopian situations. It is the old error of the externalization of evil.”