Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Jill Paton Walsh

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English novelist Jill Paton Walsh.

Last updated on November 6, 2024.

Gillian Honorine Mary Herbert, Baroness Hemingford,, known professionally as Jill Paton Walsh, was an English novelist and children's writer. She may be known best for her Booker prize-nominated novel Knowledge of Angels and the Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane mysteries that have completed and continued the work of Dorothy L. Sayers.

English - Novelist | Born: April 29, 1937

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If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.

Jill Paton Walsh

There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit the earth; and nothing that we value will endure in the world unless they can be persuaded to value it too.

Jill Paton Walsh

It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people.

Jill Paton Walsh

The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.

Jill Paton Walsh

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Jill Paton Walsh

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