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Jane Yolen is an American author known for her extensive work in the field of children's literature, born on February 11, 1939. Her writings span across various genres, including children's literature, adult fiction, and poetry, renowned for their vivid imagination and profound emotional depth.

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“The only duty of the dreamer is to tell the truth about the dream.”

Writing Art Truth Dreams Honesty

Book:Hobby

Source: Hobby

“Fiction is like wrestling with angels-you do not expect to win, but you do expect to come away from the experience changed.”

Writing Reading Fiction Angels

Book:Take Joy: The Writers Guide To Loving The Craft

Source: Take Joy: The Writers Guide To Loving The Craft

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

Writing Creativity Self Discovery Writers Writers On Writing

Book:Take Joy: The Writers Guide To Loving The Craft

Source: Take Joy: The Writers Guide To Loving The Craft

“Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts.”

Writing Growth Ability

Author:Jane Yolen

“If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough.”

Ifs Want Writing Enough Talent

Author:Jane Yolen

“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.”

Needs Writing Stories Reader Suits Shirts

Author: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.”

Writing Firsts Perfect First Time Get Better Over It Fifth

Author:Jane Yolen

“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.”

Knows World Writing Heart Stories Mirrors Spokes Storyteller

Book:Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

Source: Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

“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.”

“Just write. If you have to make a choice, if you say, 'Oh well, I'm going to put the writing away until my children are grown,' then you don't really want to be a writer. If you want to be a writer, you do your writing... If you don't do it, you probably don't want to be a writer, you just want to have written and be famous—which is very different.”

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Author:Jane Yolen

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

Writing Writing Love

Author:Jane Yolen

“You write to be read. That is the bottom line.”

Writing Lines Bottom Bottom Line

Author:Jane Yolen

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

Writing Heart Children Book Helping Stories Life Changing Life Story Childrens Book

Author: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.”

Writing Ideas Hard

Author:Jane Yolen

“Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.”

Thinking Needs Writing Exercise Muscles

Author:Jane Yolen

“Exercise the writing muscle every day.”

Writing Exercise Muscles Writers And Writing Writing By Writers Creativity And Writing Writing Every Day Successful Writing Writing Notes

Author:Jane Yolen

About the Author

Born: February 11, 1939
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 69

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