{"author":"Jane Yolen","author_id":"Jane+Yolen","total_quotes":28,"quotes":[{"text":"I contend that good children's stories are always about the Getting of Wisdom. That's another way of saying, 'Let your characters grow. Up.' And good stories for adults are about the Holding of Wisdom. Another way of saying, 'Recognize you are grown up.","author":"Jane Yolen","tags":["stories","writing"],"id":644,"author_id":"Jane+Yolen"},{"text":"Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.","author":"Jane Yolen","tags":["childhood","disease","literature"],"id":29691,"author_id":"Jane+Yolen"},{"text":"Because though women lie when they have to and men lie all the time, the mirror always tells the truth.","author":"Jane Yolen","tags":["ageing","lies"],"id":37326,"author_id":"Jane+Yolen"},{"text":"In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. It was a nonfiction book about women pirates - 'Pirates in Petticoats.' After that, I was a book writer for good.","author":"Jane Yolen","tags":["women","good","college "],"id":49823,"author_id":"Jane+Yolen"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jane Yolen","tags":["fantasy","fiction","young-adult"],"id":50264,"author_id":"Jane+Yolen"},{"text":"Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself. There will be times when he will surround you with walls of darkness. But remember always that your soul is secure to you, for your soul is entire, and that he cannot enter your soul, for your soul is part of God.","author":"Jane Yolen","tags":["darkness","evil","god","soul"],"id":57507,"author_id":"Jane+Yolen"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jane Yolen","tags":["writing"],"id":79036,"author_id":"Jane+Yolen"},{"text":"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 in front of the other, moves me on, away from you to a place, where I do not want to be.","author":"Jane Yolen","tags":["loss"],"id":150613,"author_id":"Jane+Yolen"},{"text":"1. Write every day2. Write what interests you.3. Write for the child inside of you. (Or the adult, if you are writing adult books.)4. Write with honest emotion5. Be careful of being facile6. Be wary of preaching7. Be prepared for serendipity.","author":"Jane Yolen","tags":["writing"],"id":183257,"author_id":"Jane+Yolen"},{"text":"Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... The rest will follow.","author":"Jane Yolen","tags":["ambition","ambitions","creativity","love","writing"],"id":204499,"author_id":"Jane+Yolen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}