Diana Wynne Jones Quotes

I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so.

Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?

The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways.

I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.

My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.

Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them.

I truly believe that if you think something's stupid, that might mean it's actually good.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

I think comedy's often the little and the large, isn't it?

Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not.

We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper.

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.

Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

People come to my shows and know that they're going to hear about what's going on in the world - what's happening at the moment. My material is as new as anything on the dinner table.

People say I'm America's worst nightmare. I say I'm the American dream.

Time heals all things but one: Time.

THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.