It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.

- Jane Yolen

Wood may remain twenty years in the water, but it is still not a fish.

- Jane Yolen

A mist. A great mist. It covered the entire kingdom. And everyone in it - the good people and the not so good, the young people and the not-so-young,…

- Jane Yolen

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

- Jane Yolen

Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make a gala…

- Jane Yolen

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

- Jane Yolen

If you love a waist, you waste a love.

- Jane Yolen

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

- Jane Yolen

Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't a lot to be observed at d…

- Jane Yolen