Which diana wynne jones character are you

Sophie all the way :. Sep 08, PM. Ohh I love them all but I guess my favorite is Chrestomanci because he is no mean and sarcastic in a silly way Feb 25, PM. Over the years there's been: Luke Howl but only as a sort of 'older-man' crush i used to have. Chrestomanci he says all kinds of things with a sort of very polite expression which makes it even funnier Its like her personality's so strong its an awkward point with her :.

Feb 28, PM. I agree Maree Mallory has a strong, interesting character. Loved the car dance! I would have also liked th read more about Maree. There is definately more to tell. I need to reread most of Jones' books. I sadly don't remember a lot of the characters. One that stands out is Dogsbody. The puppy Leo and child Kathleen are perfect together. Life as a dog was a learning experience for Sirius, the dog star.

Apr 12, AM. Sophie and Howl are just amazing, both as separate entities and as a duo. I loved that the heroes of Howl's Moving Castle were a cranky "old" lady and a vain coward. Chrestomanci is so politely sarcastic, which I found endlessly amusing and endearing.

I also think they're my favorite because they weren't limited to just one book. I really hope DWJ chooses to continue their stories in newer works, even if they have very limited roles. Apr 14, AM. Yeah, I like that Jones doesn't make her characters too perfect. Apr 16, AM. Miriam wrote: "Yeah, I like that Jones doesn't make her characters too perfect. I don't think there are any characters anywhere nowadays who are written 'perfect'.

Readers wouldn't take to them. I agree. And since the books are written for children and young adult, what child would want to read about a perfect, goody two shoes? Besides the characters must have faults in order to overcome them on the road to perfection! DWJ's character are often clueless at the beginning of the book, but they sure do learn along the way. No, I don't think perfect characters are very common anymore, but I think of a couple very very not-perfect main characters as well: Charles from Witch Week oh, but I love him anyway for his hilarious logical-ness and Mitt from Drowned Ammet would-be suicide bomber!

Apr 17, AM. Kaion wrote:" Oh, i know! How Mitt turned out knocked me off my seat! I rather liked him I know trilogies are quite common, but quartets? Because i was just thinking that it seemed very like DWJ to write a quartet instead of doing trilogies like other authors May 05, AM. True, but a lot of characters seem to me like the author just made up some flaws in order to have flaws, not like they are really integrated into a real personality likes Jones' characters.

May 06, AM. True, but a lot of characters seem to me like the author just made up some flaws in order to have flaws Some minor imperfection to make them seem less idealized. And lots of times the flaws don't effect the plot at all.

I love the way DWJ structures the plot in ways that make sense for the characters personalities. Like, it completely works in Charmed Life that Cat wouldn't think of asking for help. May 17, AM. Yasmin wrote: "Kaion wrote:" As for quartets in which a would-suicide-bomber becomes king, I'm not sure those are quite as common. Am I the only one not utterly charmed by Howl? Diana was born in August in London, where she had a chaotic and unsettled childhood against the background of World War II.

The family moved around a lot, finally settling in rural Essex. As children, Diana and her two sisters were deprived of a good, steady supply of books by a father, 'who could beat Scrooge in a meanness contest'. So, armed with a vivid imagination and an insatiable quest for good books to read, she decided that she would have to write them herself. She was extremely dyslexic, so when she told her parents she wanted to be a writer, they just laughed.

However between ages of 12 and 14, the young writer completed two epic tales scrawled in a total of 20 copy books. This taught her from an early age the invaluable lesson of how to finish a book. They married in and had three sons. Diana wrote both children's books and plays mostly performed at the London Arts Theatre and her first book was published in Since then she wrote over 40 books.

Her enviably fertile mind allowed her to write prolifically, even when her three boys were small, and quite a handful! When writing, she was totally absorbed in the book and on one never-to-be forgotten occasion, her sons returned from school ravenous to find she had shoved a pair of muddy shoes in the oven for their tea! She said, 'I am an inspirational writer. I forget meals and write with ever-increasing speed. The adventures in his magical worlds — for, as every budding sorcerer knows there are many series of parallel worlds — continue to enthral readers all over the world.

Diana was runner-up for the Children's Book Award in , and was twice runner-up for the Carnegie Medal. In , she won two major fantasy awards: the children's section of the Mythopeic Award in the USA, and the Karl Edward Wagner Award in the UK — which is awarded by the British Fantasy Society to individuals or organisations who have made a significant impact on fantasy.

JK Rowling was runner-up on both occasions. Diana was also shortlisted for The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, which rewards the best in contemporary children's and young adult literature from all over the world, in Meeting Diana you wouldn't be surprised to find she had second sight though she hadn't as far as I know.

You'd think it quite natural that she should be a writer of fantasy, a connoisseur of witchcraft, a creator of parallel worlds. For her, magic wasn't something that floats about unrooted in human nature.

Every day. He went straight back to London, where my mother was expecting her third baby any day. We were left in the austere company of Mam and Dad as we were told to call them. Dad, who was a moderator of the Welsh Nonconformist Chapels, was a stately patriarch; Mam was a small browbeaten lady who seemed to us to have no character at all.

We were told that she was famous in her youth for her copper hair, her wit, and her beauty, but we saw no sign of any of this. With terrific line drawings that perfectly complement Diana's witty, magical story, this is a wonderful adventure of triumph over adversity. Poor Earwig has always lived in an orphanage but she loves it there and doesn't want to leave so one day when she is chosen to go and live with someone who turns out to be a witch she wonders how she will survive.

But Earwig's ingenuity and some help from a talking cat pulls her through. Sadly, this is Diana Wynne-Jones' final story for children as she died in March In the land of Ingary, where seven league boots and cloaks of invisibility do exist, Sophie Hatter catches the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste and is put under a spell. Deciding she has nothing more to lose, she makes her way to the moving castle that hovers on the hills above Market Chipping. But the castle belongs to the dreaded Wizard Howl whose appetite, they say, is satisfied only by the souls of young girls There she meets Michael, Howl's apprentice, and Calcifer the Fire Demon, with whom she agrees a pact.

But Sophie isn't the only one under a curse - her entanglements with Calcifer, Howl, and Michael, and her quest to break her curse is both gripping - and howlingly funny! Sometimes this is quite difficult to organize. It was quite surprisingly itself right from the beginning. Do you find yourself working exclusively on one book at a time, or do you spend time thinking about books in other worlds?

This seems to happen quite a lot, lately. And I usually do seem to have. But meanwhile, something is happening in the primordial marsh at the bottom of our brain. I just wait patiently for it to pop up like a huge bubble or something. Was House of Many Ways easy or difficult for you to write? I suppose, it was sort of [in the] middle.

Can you talk a little bit more about Howl being disguised as a totally enchanting but infuriating toddler in House of Many Ways? It was fun to do, actually, when I finally got him in the right context.

I felt also that he needed a slight change from being forced to be a genie as he was in [ Castle in the Air ]. Was this a conscious decision? No, it was just the way it went.

It was odd. I think it was that Lubbock appearing. Because I was expecting there would be more of that. I suppose the only thing that really is the fairy story of the mountains are the Kobolds. Kobolds are very big in mountain country. At least, they are small blue men, but they are considered to be everywhere. Well, no. You have to keep them separate, because they are very separate kinds of universes.

But I was very glad to be able to return, because I had always felt that there were several more Howl stories in there, somewhere.

Well, I was delighted that you returned there. Yes, I was ever so pleased, too. It was enormous fun to do. And that is my own take on The Tempest. I really want to do this. Because it seems to me that poor Miranda gets such a raw deal.

One of my daughters-in-law is called Miranda and she thoroughly agrees with me. And I think Prospero was horrible. Very few people seem to agree with me on this. What a managing, crude man he was. You know, enslaving creatures and things. Howl seems like the right person to make mischief on that island! Probably doing something to help poor Ariel, who did really have his hands full. He seems to be most unfairly burdened with work.

Did it bring more attention to the books? Oh, quite a lot more. And the procession of people, which was enormous already, has increased--doubled and tripled--of all the people who want to marry Howl. Now it seems to me that Howl would be one of the most dreadful husbands one could possibly imagine. I want to marry him. So, any other movies or television shows in the works?

There are always plans and they nearly always fall through. Each time I talk about them I touch wood. Because it would be nice to have a few more. There is somebody who is struggling with my book The Ogre Downstairs. If they do get to it, may make a wonderful film. I just hope they do. I do hope she does, because she seems terribly competent in this and has produced all sorts of plays and things.

Your first books were published in the s, which means that many of your readers have grown up with your books and continued to be fans even as adults.