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You know how it is: as soon as you decide to forget something, your brain comes to the conclusion that it's the most fascinating thing in the world. — Jane Yolen

Papa wasn't like them, with lines like cursive writing up and down their faces. — Jane Yolen

He knew he was not a brave man, but he had a great sense of drama. In some circumstances it could seem the same. Forcing — Jane Yolen

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old. — Jane Yolen

Sometimes living takes more courage than dying. — Jane Yolen

If you love a waist, you waste a love. — Jane Yolen

But wanting and getting are hard neighbors and bitter friends. — Jane Yolen

Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts. — Jane Yolen

Touch magic. Pass it on. — Jane Yolen

You can only chase a butterfly for so long. — Jane Yolen

Write every day. You don't have to write about anything specific, but you should exercise your writing muscle constantly. — Jane Yolen

It is the last thing we learn, / listening to the creature world ... — Jane Yolen

All around the castle, a briary hedge began to grow, with thorns as sharp as barbs. — Jane Yolen

If you give up at the first rejection or the first bad review, you will never make it in publishing. — Jane Yolen

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends ... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen. — Jane Yolen

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

The thing about endings is, they can begin quietly enough. That's how they sneak up on you. — Jane Yolen

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. — 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

Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise. — Jane Yolen

Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars. — Jane Yolen

Because though women lie when they have to and men lie all the time, the mirror always tells the truth. — Jane Yolen

Why am I working so hard? Going for 400 books, perhaps, but who's really counting? — Jane Yolen

I must fill myself with sorrow if I am to give you what you want. — Jane Yolen

Their lips were too thin to ask forgiveness, and their minds too mean to understand love. — Jane Yolen

Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time. — Jane Yolen

Fish are not the best authority on water. — Jane Yolen

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing, the rest will follow. — Jane Yolen

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

If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough. — Jane Yolen

For it began to occur to him that one way to become private was to respect another's privacy. — Jane Yolen

There's only one absolute rule in writing: None of us gets it right the first time. Revise, reverse, reinvent, re-vision. — Jane Yolen

I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both. — Jane Yolen

Happy-ever-after is a fairy-tale notion, not history. I know of no woman who escaped from Chelmno alive. — Jane Yolen

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. — Jane Yolen

The others are all common mouths chattering, empty heads like wooden whistles blowing common tunes. — Jane Yolen

We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves. — Jane Yolen

He wishes to be far away, either at sea or on the shore. In between, he realizes, is the most difficult of all places to be. — Jane Yolen

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

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition. — Jane Yolen

And at twelve, heading for adulthood, a child fears that the way she is at that moment is all she's ever going to be. — Jane Yolen

You've got some power," Jakkin said. "One hug - and the lights go out! — 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

If there is a single person at the nexus of fantasy literature, it is Terri Windling
as editor, as writer, as painter, as muse. — Jane Yolen

Not to know is bad, but not to wish to know is worse. — Jane Yolen

I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told. — Jane Yolen

I have pulled threads from magic tapestries already woven and used them to weave my own cloth. — Jane Yolen

What is a vow ... but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised? — Jane Yolen

I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul. — Jane Yolen

I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing words. — Jane Yolen

All around me, grown-up voices called out, "Amen!" as if the word was a hall pass into Heaven. — Jane Yolen

You write to be read. That is the bottom line. — Jane Yolen

Wanting to die and dying, she found were two separate things. — Jane Yolen

How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another. — Jane Yolen

What was can never be again. — Jane Yolen