What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.
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
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
Wood may remain twenty years in the water, but it is still not a fish.
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
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,…
You can only chase a butterfly for so long. - Jane Yolen
You can only chase a butterfly for so long.
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
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…
Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art. - Jane Yolen
Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.
If you love a waist, you waste a love. - Jane Yolen
If you love a waist, you waste a love.
A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old. - Jane Yolen
A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.
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
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…
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