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 YolenFolklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world.
Jane YolenThe tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.
Jane YolenTags: fantasy fairy-tales
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 YolenTags: holocaust fairytale sleeping-beauty
JANE: What to do when it is that time in your girl child's life:
1. Sit down calmly and explain sex to her?
2. Buy her a book, video, or CD that gives her the details?
3. Buy her condoms and put her on the pill?
Or do as many mothers before you did—just stick your head in the sand and hope she joins a convent.
Of course these days your child may know more about sex than you did at her age, what with in-school health lessons, and out-of-school R-rated movies easily accessed on the TV, not to mention the Starr Report!
In the days of fairy tales, sex was dangerous because so many women died in childbirth. Today sex is again dangerous because of diseases like AIDS. So what do we say?
How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another.
Jane YolenStories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the ones that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.
Jane YolenYou've got some power," Jakkin said. "One hug—and the lights go out!
Jane Yolen...For it began to occur to him that one way to become private was to respect another's privacy.
Jane YolenTags: privacy
If there is a single person at the nexus of fantasy literature, it is Terri Windling -- as editor, as writer, as painter, as muse.
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