Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.
Diana Wynne JonesThis book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have wings, making them hard to catch. 3. All power corrupts, but we need electricity. 4. When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, the result is a family fight. 5. Music does not always sooth the troubled beast. 6. An Englishman's home is his castle. 7. The female of the species is more deadly than the male. 8. One black eye deserves another. 9. Space is the final frontier, and so is the sewage farm. 10. It pays to increase your word power.
Diana Wynne JonesEvery man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.
Diana Wynne JonesImagination doesnโt 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 donโt, and never would, write Real Books.
Diana Wynne Jones...if the spell was off, Iโd have my heart eaten before I could turn around.โ โDonโt you want your heart eaten?โ asked the fire. [...] โNaturally I donโt,โ Sophie answered.
Diana Wynne JonesBut Sophie and Howl were holding one another's hand and smiling and smiling, quite unable to stop. "Don't bother me know," said Howl. "I only did it for the money." "Liar!"said Sophie. "I said," Michael said, "that Calcifer's come back!" That did get Howl's attention and Sophie's too.
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