This 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.
FUCK YEAH, DWJ!
a Diana Wynne Jones tumblelog
Derkholm Kids, by NetRaptor
Zips,” Groil repeated. “I look good. I feel good. I got clothes!” He whirled away, waving his arms Shaun-fashion, and began to dance around the dim, moonlit lawn. “I got clothes!” he sang in a grating tenor voice. “I look good! I got zips! I got clothes, I look good!
“For the love of the strange gods of the heroes, don’t do that to the book!”
- Fire and Hemlock (1985)
I am really very grateful for this Award. It is one of the first given to a woman, and to two women at that. When I first started getting work published, I used to have wistful thoughts at the way all important awards were given to men. Women, I used to think, could be as innovative, imaginative and productive as possible - and women were the ones mostly at work in the field of fantasy for children and young adults - but only let a man enter the field, and people instantly regarded what he had to say and what he did as more Important. He got respectful reviews as well as awards, even if what he was doing - which it often was - was imitating the women. But you have changed all that. Thank you for being so enlightened.
Women, large-minded, formidable women, have played an almost exclusive part in helping my career. I have hardly ever dealt with a man - at least, when it came to publishing.
That is the unexpected trouble with love affairs, I thought as I made more coffee. You can fancy a girl like mad, but more than just the look of her comes into it. You find yourself having to allow for her personality, too. A five-thirty in the morning.
- The Merlin Conspiracy (2003)
A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.
- Castle in the Air (1990)
‘This is the mythosphere. It’s made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here on Earth. As you can see, it’s constantly growing and moving as people invent new tales to tell or find new things to believe. The older strands move out to become these spirals, where things tend to become quite crude and dangerous. They’ve hardened off, you see.’
- The Game (2007)
