Celebrate Diana Wynne Jones!

A look at how Diana’s work can change lives, and allow windows into other writers’ work.

“One of the things I love best about her books is the way she so deftly creates characters who feel real, recognizable, fully-developed. She doesn’t need pages and pages of exposition, or obnoxious conversations that exist in the text only to reveal the emotional state of a character. Somehow, her people are REAL in a way that characters in other books often aren’t.…With just a few well-chosen adjectives, with the decision to have Derk sigh or Querida shake her head, these characters become PEOPLE, each entirely individual and unique, the way real, living and breathing humans are.”