All writers write about themselves, just as the old storytellers chose to tell stories that spoke to and about themselves. They call it the world, but it is themselves they portray. The world of which they write is like a mirror that reflects the inside of their hearts, often more truly than they know.
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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