Jane Yolen Quotes

They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of meta...

Touch magic. Pass it on.

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

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaki...

from Taking Your Clothes to the Salvation Army:Okay, so strangers will be grateful for this, will we...

I do not know where I am going or what I will do when I get there. I know only that to put one foot ...

If we do not laugh, we will cry. Crying will only make us hotter and sweatier. We Jews like to joke ...

Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in...

Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it ...

I contend that good children's stories are always about the Getting of Wisdom. That's another way of...

A good story is [a] kind of irritant. You read it, then you cannot stop thinking about it. Eventuall...

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

Because though women lie when they have to and men lie all the time, the mirror always tells the tru...

Do not expect too much from your child and she will grow in your love... But if you push her too muc...

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

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

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Q...

Ah—now you think I have been lying to you, that this is only a story. It has a king in it. And while...

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

In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but...

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the ...

In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. I...

1. Write every day2. Write what interests you.3. Write for the child inside of you. (Or the adult, i...

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

Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character...

Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller ca...

And at twelve, heading for adulthood, a child fears that the way she is at that moment is all she's ...