Writing Quote by Jane Yolen Download Open image ““Papa wasn't like them, with lines like cursive writing up and down their faces.”” — Jane Yolen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cursive Writing Writing
“The whole time I was growing up...living in this house...Papa was like a shadow that followed you everywhere. ...It would wrap around you and… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“If he went around looking into people’s windows like you say, He’d see how things were here; He’d see that it was cold and… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Then his father did something horrible. He smiled. Tris had never seen Papa smile. It terrified him, and he screamed and screamed.” — Rowan Speedwell Copy Share Image
“When I see some over-dressed yuppie wearing suspenders today, I just smile and think that in some things Papa was ahead of his time.” — Herman E. Talmadge Copy Share Image
“Yes,' said Catherine, stroking his long soft hair, 'if I could only get papa's consent, I'd spend half my time with you - Pretty… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“Papa won’t be very long now,” she said. “May we talk about the lost little girl?” “I don’t think I could talk much about… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“We were all so young that there were no lines on our faces to read between.” — Phyllis Theroux Copy Share Image
“Only just now she said to me, ‘I am very happy, papa!’ When they say ‘father’ stiffly, it sends a chill through me; but… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Mamma’s mouth turned down at the sides, like it did when she felt bad. “I know, Domenico, but it doesn’t make it any easier… — Giacomo Giammatteo Copy Share Image
“My father was quite conscious of that distinction, too, and because he spoke very freely in private, he used to sometimes say, quite fiercely,… — Mary Soames Copy Share Image
“Unlike Dad, she'd always known just the right things to say, and her words felt like bandages or spurs or even ledges, instead of… — Courtney Alameda Copy Share Image
“Part of her revolted against the insanity of the rules. Part of her was grateful. In a world of chaos, any guidelines helped. And… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“Cinderella, until lately, has never been a passive dreamer waiting for rescue. The forerunners of the Ash-girl have all been hardy, active heroines who… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Just write. If you have to make a choice, if you say, 'Oh well, I'm going to put the writing away until my children… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“1. Write every day 2. Write what interests you. 3. Write for the child inside of you. (Or the adult, if you are writing… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
What is a vow... but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised? — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
A mist. A great mist. It covered the entire kingdom. And everyone in it - the good people and the not so good, the… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
We all have such stories. It is a brutal arithmetic. But I - I am alive. You are alive. As long as we breathe,… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
