Jane Yolen Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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

  Writing, Athlete, Character

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

  Jane Yolen

  Writing, Writing Love

• 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

  Writing, Ideas, Hard

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

  Jane Yolen

  Children, Life Changing, Book

• 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.

  Jane Yolen

  Writing, Heart, Mirrors

  Jane Yolen (1981). “Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood”, Philomel

• 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.

  Jane Yolen

  Children, Writing, Choices

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

  Jane Yolen

  Writing, Exercise, Thinking

• Exercise the writing muscle every day.

  Jane Yolen

  Writing, Exercise, Muscles

• Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts.

  Jane Yolen

  Writing, Growth, Ability

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

  Jane Yolen

  Writing, Want, Talent

• 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

  Writing, Needs, Stories

• You write to be read. That is the bottom line.

  Jane Yolen

  Writing, Lines, Bottom

• 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

  Writing, Perfect, Get Better

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