Jane Yolen Quotes

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• Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.
• In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of…
• You write to be read. That is the bottom line.
• Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.
• I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to…
• Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.
• Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.
• Intuition works best when you remember that 'tuition' is part of it. You need to have paid ahead of time (i.e. Done your prep work…
• Exercise the writing muscle every day.
• It is the last thing we learn, / listening to the creature world...
• Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals…
• Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.
• Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.
• You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.
• And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have excised…
• A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different…
• The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean…
• Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.
• A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is…
• But as the scissors snip-snapped through her hair and the razor shaved the rest, she realized with a sudden awful panic that she could no…

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