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I don't usually make posts for dead authors. By the time I find out about it it always seems everyone else has said what there is to say.

But if there is a single author I had to pick out of a long, long list of authors I love as being important to me, way at the center - as forming the way I think and write about the world - it would be Diana Wynne Jones. I honestly can't remember the first time I read one of her books; they're so much a part of me that it feels like she's always been there.

Thank you for everything, DWJ.

Date: 2011-03-26 03:53 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] dynastessa
No way! I can't believe it.

:(

Date: 2011-03-26 04:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nevacaruso.livejournal.com
What? Oh, no!

Rest in peace, lady. I wish you a safe and happy Tour.

*hugs bookelfe tight*

Date: 2011-03-26 04:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] futuresoon.livejournal.com
...well, shit. There goes my morning.

Date: 2011-03-26 07:23 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com
You should see these pictures (http://steepholm.livejournal.com/163048.html?style=mine) from DWJ's friend and critic, Charlie Butler ([livejournal.com profile] steepholm).

Date: 2011-03-26 08:43 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] kindness_says
Yeah.

=(

<3

Date: 2011-03-26 08:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] peroxidepirate.livejournal.com
Well said.

The world will not be the same. Fiction will not be the same.

Date: 2011-03-26 09:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hafl.livejournal.com
I still haven't read enough of her books...

Date: 2011-03-26 10:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arefadedaway.livejournal.com
I'm utterly heartbroken. She was the second most influential author of my young adult life (the first being Tamora Pierce), and her novels and stories and words meant more to me than I can express.

Date: 2011-03-27 01:56 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] tiltingheartand
WHAT

Date: 2011-03-27 05:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oneechan19.livejournal.com
Oh no! :(

Rest in peace, DWJ.

Date: 2011-03-27 05:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elspeth-vimes.livejournal.com
Thank you, Diana Wynne Jones, and rest in peace.




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