Diana Wynne Jones Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: August 16, 1934 - March 26, 2011
Birthday: August 16
Death: March 26
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.
source: Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Reflections”, p.158, Random House
topic: Teacher, Real, Book, Real Books, Thinking Things Through
