Quotes by Jill Paton Walsh - Page 1

It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people.
Jill Paton Walsh / Novelist
Children
People
Real
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If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.
Jill Paton Walsh / Novelist
Asking
Asks
Secret
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If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it.
Jill Paton Walsh / Novelist
Express Yourself
Manage
Lover
Services
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I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.
Jill Paton Walsh / Novelist
Moral Philosophy
Standing
Tools
Examples
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The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.
Jill Paton Walsh / Novelist
Adults
Moving
Wicked
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Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk.
Jill Paton Walsh / Novelist
Travel
Long Hours
Quiet
Quiet Life
Solitude
Fairly
Appearances
Tours
Desk
Entails
However
Libraries
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I honestly don't think Peter is that interesting without Harriet - the only exception being 'The Nine Tailors', which is such a good book it doesn't really matter whether he's got a consort or not.
Jill Paton Walsh / Novelist
Exception
Good Book
Nine
Peter
Harriet
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My grandfather had a proper bookcase of egghead books, and he gave them to me in alphabetical order. So we moved from Aeschylus to the Brontas, and I can still remember the great relief of going from the dipus cycle to Jane Eyre.
Jill Paton Walsh / Novelist
Alphabet
Grandfather
Jane
Relief
Great Me Remember
Cycle
Proper
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There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit the earth; and nothing that we value will endure in the world unless they can be persuaded to value it too.
Jill Paton Walsh / Novelist
Important
Literature
Writing
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You can't deduce the personality of the potter from the pots. It's a thingy you've made and offered to somebody else for their use, and, believe me, a novel is like that. It's a made thing and ought not to contain a direct self-expression of the writer.
Jill Paton Walsh / Novelist
Ought
Self Expression
Contain
Deduce
Offered
Pots
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There's no point in using someone else's characters if you're going to turn them into your own vision. You have to be loyal to that person's worldview and sensitive to what they would and wouldn't have done with their characters, and how explicit or inexplicit they would've been.
Jill Paton Walsh / Novelist
Explicit
Loyal
No Point
Sensitive
Worldview
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I worked for many years as a writer for children and then wrote two adult novels of the kind they call 'literary' without any very great disturbance to this kind of life. Then, something went wrong. My third adult novel was rejected by the publisher of the first two. And I could not understand the criticism offered.
Jill Paton Walsh / Novelist
Criticism
Disturbance
Rejected
Literary
Offered
Publisher
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