How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another. Jane Yolen More Quotes by Jane Yolen More Quotes From Jane Yolen Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise. Jane Yolen exercise writing thinking 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 critics heart book 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 brain forget world 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? Jane Yolen mind brain mean 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. Jane Yolen gone stories long You can only chase a butterfly for so long. Jane Yolen chasing-butterflies butterfly long A mist. A great mist. It covered the entire kingdom. And everyone in it - the good people and the not so good, the young people and the not-so-young, and even Briar Rose's mother and father fell asleep. Everyone slept: lords and ladies, teacher and tummlers, dogs and doves, rabbits and rabbitzen and all kinds of citizens. So fast asleep they were, they were not able to wake up for a hundred years. Jane Yolen dog mother teacher A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole. Jane Yolen light dark men It is the last thing we learn, / listening to the creature world. Jane Yolen lasts listening world 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 dark book children And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have excised from our adult vocabularies. These words are the pornography of innocence, words which adults no longer use with other adults, and so we laugh at them and consign them to the nursery, fear masking as cynicism. These are the words that were forged in the earth, air, fire, and water of human existence, and the words are: Love. Hate. Good. Evil. Courage. Honor. Truth. Jane Yolen hate fire book Wood may remain twenty years in the water, but it is still not a fish. Jane Yolen essence water years Fish are not the best authority on water. Jane Yolen unawareness ignorance water 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. Jane Yolen stories writing needs Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts. Jane Yolen ability growth writing Sometimes living takes more courage than dying. Jane Yolen dying sometimes 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 goddess lasts heart Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen. Jane Yolen happy-endings fairy-tale queens Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars. Jane Yolen scar doe may Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked door. Jane Yolen hero doors fall
