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You write to be read. That is the bottom line.
Jane Yolen
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Jane Yolen
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: February 11
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Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Jane Hyatt Yolen
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A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different culture, a different tongue for a child who has already mastered Elvish, respected Puddleglums, or fallen under the spell of dark-skinned Ged?
Jane Yolen
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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Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.
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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 story we need to write, they read the story they need to read.
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It is the last thing we learn, / listening to the creature world.
Jane Yolen
They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think we do now. But these stories are so potent, they refuse to die.
Jane Yolen
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 lies can be our deepest hidden truths.
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Touch magic. Pass it on.
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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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If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough.
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Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.
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Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.
Jane Yolen
I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future.
Jane Yolen
Wood may remain twenty years in the water, but it is still not a fish.
Jane Yolen
Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.
Jane Yolen
The main plot line is simple: Getting your character to the foot of the tree, getting him up the tree, and then figuring out how to get him down again.
Jane Yolen
Sometimes living takes more courage than dying.
Jane Yolen
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.
Jane Yolen
Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world.
Jane Yolen
You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.
Jane Yolen
