Jane Yolen Quotes
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When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, and 'Devil's Arithmetic,' how can the public make sense of that! I have fans who think I only write picture books or only write SF and fantasy. I have fanatics of my poetry and are stunned to find out I write prose, too!
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'I’ll drive. You navigate.' He grinned. 'I judge people by how well they read maps.'
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She hated to lie but she hated arguments even more.
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If you give up at the first rejection or the first bad review, you will never make it in publishing.
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Wars may make heroes of men, but not all the time.
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I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told.
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Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself.
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'Will you write the story?''If there is one.''Happy ending or no?' He was serious.She attempted a smile. 'Fairy tales always have a happy ending.'He leaned back in his chair. 'That depends.''On what?''On whether you are Rumplestiltskin or the Queen.'
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Myths are stories that explain a natural phenomenon. Before humans found scientific explanations for such things as the moon and the sun and rainbows, they tried to understand them by telling stories.
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Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.
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I write to satisfy the story or poem or piece of fascinating research that speaks to me. To rub a sore, to resonate with joy, to answer a question no one else has satisfactorily answered for me.
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Why am I working so hard? Going for 400 books, perhaps, but who's really counting?
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It is not crazy to want to know the past. It is only crazy to live there, like so many of the aristocracy.
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It seems like I've been writing since birth! I started writing poems before I got to school. I wrote the class musical in first grade - both words and music. It was about a bunch of vegetables who got together in a salad. I played the chief carrot!
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I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing words.
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If a parent wants to talk about slavery or wants to talk about countries where bombs go off, they need to have a way - a setting - to have that conversation. And there are wonderful books out there for those kinds of conversations.
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Time may heal wounds, but it does not erase the scars.
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In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. It was a nonfiction book about women pirates - 'Pirates in Petticoats.' After that, I was a book writer for good.
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I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.
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My youngest son becomes an award-winning nature photographer, and I cannot resist writing poems to his pictures. My daughter loves to cook, though I do not. Yet together, we write a cookbook with fairy tales. And now a second.
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My beloved husband goes through radiation, and a book of sonnets is my passionate response. And then after he dies, I write another book of poems as a farewell. The two keywords here are passion and joy. I simply have a passion for writing, and I do it with joy.
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She filled the pot, got out a new filter, threw the old one onto the garbage, and counted out five tablespoons of Columbian Supreme. Then she waited while the magic of modern invention turned tap water into a hot dark-brown caffeine-powered drink. It was better than any Biblical miracle and risked no beliefs.
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While I was in junior high, I wrote an entire essay in rhyme about manufacturing in New York State. In high school, I won a Scholastic poetry contest.
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Write every day. You don't have to write about anything specific, but you should exercise your writing muscle constantly.