Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.

- Diana Wynne Jones

Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.

- Diana Wynne Jones

One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.

- Diana Wynne Jones

You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.

- Diana Wynne Jones

A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.

- Diana Wynne Jones

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

- Diana Wynne Jones

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

- Diana Wynne Jones

Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children yo…

- Diana Wynne Jones

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

- Diana Wynne Jones