Aaron Shepard Quotes
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If you must come out and say it, do it in dialog, not narration.
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Avoid preaching. Children’s stories should be explorations of life.
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We find our power in the same place as our pain.
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We can never know truth, but some stories are better than others.
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However honest you may be, your heart is small and your fist is tight. Fall again, mount again, learn how to count again!
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Don’t blurt out your theme. Let it emerge from the story.
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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.
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Especially good spirits might be brought to the Land of Darkness only briefly or not at all.
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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.
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Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.