159 Quotes by Jane Yolen

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    All writers write about themselves, just as the old storytellers chose to tell stories that spoke to and about themselves. They call it the world, but it is themselves they portray. The world of which they write is like a mirror that reflects the inside of their hearts, often more truly than they know.

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    We all have such stories. It is a brutal arithmetic. But I - I am alive. You are alive. As long as we breathe, we can see and hear. As long as we can remember, all those gone before are alive inside us.

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    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 your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?

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    What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

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    Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

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    Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

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    Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.

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    It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.

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