Diana Wynne Jones Quotes

People come up to me all the time. If I'm with friends or in a crowd, I'm fine, but if I'm by myself, I get afraid because people are nuts.

Talking to someone you have a crush on is as scary as fighting a super-villain.

Bullies are just frightened people.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Adults under threat feel like children.

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.

I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them.

I don't think anything can prepare you for a crew to come in and actually film you as yourself. It's kind of frightening to think that all of a sudden people are going to know how you are, and how you act on a day-to-day basis.

Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

I'm fine with being beat-up and pushed around, but I'm really scared of heights and scared of ledges.

I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.

One thing I've learned about death threats is that they're great, actually. You should actually be grateful for death threats because those who are taking the time to threaten you that way are getting it out of their system. That's really what they rant to do, yell at you, and they want to threaten you.

I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.

Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

I'm not brave at all.

I've fallen prey to my fair share of moments of the phobias of others and the way that that can become an attack.

I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person.

I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!

I looked around one stage school when I was maybe nine. It just scared the bejesus out of me. I was incredibly open, and the girls seemed fierce and determined.

I don't feel safe around a lot of people.

When I first met Alan, I was absolutely terrified. I was 19, he was Alan Rickman, and he's got that voice, and I remember meeting him in the hair and make-up trailer and thinking, 'I'm going to die. He thinks I'm rubbish. Why am I here?'

Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I was beneath the dignity of the bullies in my year but fair game to the ones in the year below.

I'm definitely not a fearless individual.

You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier. Put them at a table together—what do you get? The sum of their fears.