Aaron Shepard Quotes

United States, Writer
October 7, 1950

Aaron Shepard is the award-winning author of numerous children's books, as well as books on reader's theater, children's writing, and publishing. He lives with his wife and fellow author, Anne L. Watson, in Bellingham, Washington.

If you must come out and say it, do it in dialog, not narration.

Aaron Shepard
- Say
- Narration
- Dialog
However honest you may be, your heart is small and your fist is tight. Fall again, mount again, learn how to count again!

Aaron Shepard
- Heart
- Fall
- Learn

The old tales of China tell us that all things may grow and change. A stone may become a plant. A plant may become an animal. An animal may become a human. A human may become a god. Just so, a snake may become a woman. And we are told of one who did.

Aaron Shepard
- Change
- Woman
- Snake
Avoid preaching. Children’s stories should be explorations of life.

Aaron Shepard
And this, they say, is how thirteen became the “baker’s dozen”—a custom common for over a century, and alive in some places to this day.

Aaron Shepard
- Alive
- Custom
- Thirteen
We find our power in the same place as our pain.

Aaron Shepard
- Power
- Pain
- Find
Don’t blurt out your theme. Let it emerge from the story.

Aaron Shepard
- Story
- Theme
- Emerge
We can never know truth, but some stories are better than others.

Aaron Shepard
- Truth
- Better
- Stories

Especially good spirits might be brought to the Land of Darkness only briefly or not at all.

Aaron Shepard
- Darkness
- Spirits
- Brought
Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.

Aaron Shepard
- Writing
- Children
- Deserve