About Diane Duane: Diane Duane is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Her works include the Young Wizards young adult fantasy series and the Rihannsu Star Trek novels.
Belief made no difference to the truth.
Must I accept the barren Gift? -learn death, and lose my Mastery? Then let them know whose blood and breath will take the Gift and set them free: whose is the voice and whose the mind to set at naught the well-sung Game- when finned Finality arrives ...
Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the ancient-most tale of the Sea's sending: singing the tragedy, singing the joy unending This is our shame- this is the whole Ocean's glory: this is...
Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.
Don't be afraid to make corrections," Picchu said. "Don't be afraid to lend a hand." She fell silent, seeming to think for a moment. "And don't look down.
(True,) the white hole said. (My name is Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni-) and at the same time he went flickering through a pattern of colors that was evidently the visual translation.
" Dairine shrieked. "It's on Pluto," Nita said. "On the winter side, somewhere nice and dark and quiet, where you won't find it if you look all day-which you're not going to have time to do, becaus you'll be in school.
Beware! said the peridxis's voice in her head. Don't let It's shadowy little truth overwhelm the greater one.
All the drawing lacks is the final touch: To add eyes to the dragon
Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.
What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.
What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.
My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.
I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one.
There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.
