Jane Yolen quote: "I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both."

Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are ple...
JANE YOLEN

When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, ...
JANE YOLEN

If you give up at the first rejection or the first bad review, you will never make it in publishing.
JANE YOLEN

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.
JANE YOLEN

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.
JANE YOLEN

My beloved husband goes through radiation, and a book of sonnets is my passionate response. And then...
JANE YOLEN

Myths are stories that explain a natural phenomenon. Before humans found scientific explanations for...
JANE YOLEN

You've got some power," Jakkin said. "One hug—and the lights go out!
JANE YOLEN

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.
JANE YOLEN

While I was in junior high, I wrote an entire essay in rhyme about manufacturing in New York State. ...
JANE YOLEN

In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. I...
JANE YOLEN

I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing wor...
JANE YOLEN

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Q...
JANE YOLEN

A man whose axe was missing suspected his neighbor’s son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like...
JANE YOLEN

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaki...
JANE YOLEN

They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of meta...
JANE YOLEN

I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.
JANE YOLEN

I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told.
JANE YOLEN

You can have a plan, but you have to be flexible. Every day is unpredictable, and you just have to g...
JANE KRAKOWSKI

You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebr...
JANE FONDA

Every savage can dance.
JANE AUSTEN

I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don&#...
JANE PAULEY

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
JANE AUSTEN

At the end of the day, I let myself have a glass of wine.
JANE SEYMOUR

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of wome...
JANE ADDAMS

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the di...
JANE JACOBS

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
JANE AUSTEN

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
JANE AUSTEN

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
JANE AUSTEN

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conv...
JANE AUSTEN

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and i...
JANE ADDAMS

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.
JANE ELLIOT

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupi...
JANE AUSTEN

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and ...
JANE AUSTEN

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be...
JANE AUSTEN

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
JANE ADDAMS

I wanted to - any chance I had to dress up as a boy, like Halloween, I would be a pirate or a ghost ...
JANE LYNCH

You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.
JANE PAULEY

I am very busy, life is very busy, and I was, I think, a somewhat lazy friend. I love them, I know t...
JANE GREEN

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You'...
JANE FONDA

Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!
JANE BIRKIN

Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriag...
JANE SMILEY

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
JANE AUSTEN

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
JANE AUSTEN

Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying, and trying...
JANE MCGONIGAL

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
JANE AUSTEN

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to ...
JANE FONDA

Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want ...
JANE ELLIOT

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family who...
JANE CAMPION

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, wi...
JANE AUSTEN

My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't re...
JANE HADDAM

The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just...
JANE KRAKOWSKI

I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her...
JANE LINDSKOLD

After a day of watching the two-legs interact from within their midst, she was certain that they cou...
JANE LINDSKOLD

The main reason why historians have skated over the relationship of Victorian PMs with the press is ...
JANE RIDLEY

I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them...
JANE BIRKIN

The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating t...
JANE SMILEY

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
JANE PAULEY

It's always helpful to have somebody help buoy you in difficult times and problem-solve with and...
JANE POYNTER

When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN

Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot o...
JANE FONDA

I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I...
JANE GREEN

Melanoma is not the most common of skin cancers, but it is the most dangerous if not found in the ea...
JANE GREEN

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration a...
JANE MAYER

I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. ...
JANE GOODALL

I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people ...
JANE CURTIN

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any...
JANE GOODSELL

I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with line...
JANE ELLIOT

I was on 'Murder She Wrote' with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to eve...
JANE BADLER

No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on 'Today' and another 11 ...
JANE PAULEY

There are other types of public appearances a writer does in addition to book signings and readings....
JANE LINDSKOLD

I loved 'Boogie Nights.' That was a great movie, and I had a lot of fun doing that.
THOMAS JANE

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young peopl...
JANE FONDA

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship a...
JANE HARRISON

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its ori...
JANE PORTER

A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look ...
JANE SEYMOUR

I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses...
JANE AUSTEN

I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.
CALAMITY JANE

We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
CALAMITY JANE

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
CALAMITY JANE

During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
CALAMITY JANE

I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the ...
CALAMITY JANE

On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least th...
CALAMITY JANE

Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden ...
CALAMITY JANE

As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that t...
CALAMITY JANE

We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous...
CALAMITY JANE

When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got...
CALAMITY JANE

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick s...
CALAMITY JANE

By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider fo...
CALAMITY JANE

I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but ...
JANE LEVY

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDA

You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit mor...
JANE GOLDMAN

Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. Tha...
JANE ASHER

What strange creatures brothers are!
JANE AUSTEN

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN

Angry people are not always wise.
JANE AUSTEN

I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But...
JANE AUSTEN

The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civ...
JANE AUSTEN

Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk ...
JANE AUSTEN

Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborh...
JANE JACOBS

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a mo...
JANE AUSTEN

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
JANE GOODALL

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than ...
JANE AUSTEN

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
JANE AUSTEN

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was neces...
JANE AUSTEN

I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.

"Of a fine, stout, ...
JANE AUSTEN

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my f...
JANE AUSTEN

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked...
JANE AUSTEN

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison
JANE AUSTEN

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
JANE AUSTEN

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
JANE AUSTEN

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour...
JANE AUSTEN

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...
JANE AUSTEN

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
JANE AUSTEN

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is to...
JANE AUSTEN

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic...
JANE AUSTEN

Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a ...
JANE JOHNSON

We are all fools in love
JANE AUSTEN

....how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her ...
JANE AUSTEN

What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I p...
JANE AUSTEN

Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals cor...
JANE AUSTEN

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has f...
JANE AUSTEN

I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
JANE AUSTEN

If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault.
JANE AUSTEN

I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.
JANE AUSTEN

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif...
JANE AUSTEN

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at la...
JANE AUSTEN

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
JANE SMILEY

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
JANE AUSTEN

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really...
JANE AUSTEN

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to te...
JANE AUSTEN

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving peop...
JANE AUSTEN

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plai...
JANE AUSTEN

Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last ...
JANE AUSTEN

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with th...
JANE HARRISON

Men are creatures with eight hands.
JANE MANSFIELD

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
JANE AUSTEN

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
JANE AUSTEN

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
JANE AUSTEN

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
JANE AUSTEN

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are the mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to m...
JANE FONDA

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
JANE WAGNER

When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and autom...
JANE ROBERTS

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
JANE FONDA

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism ...
JANE JACOBS

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful ...
JANE FONDA

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not...
JANE HARRISON

My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair.
JANE FONDA

I worry that no matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
JANE WAGNER

You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spe...
JANE GOODSELL

Channels, psychological and psychic, always exist, sending communications back and forth through the...
JANE ROBERTS

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever ...
JANE HOWARD

From politics it was an easy step to silence.
JANE AUSTEN

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
JANE AUSTEN

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
JANE AUSTEN

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerab...
JANE AUSTEN

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itsel...
JANE ADDAMS

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
JANE AUSTEN

It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good co...
JANE AUSTEN

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, s...
JANE AUSTEN

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than o...
JANE AUSTEN

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain - until it is secured for all of us and...
JANE ADDAMS

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
JANE AUSTEN

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, noth...
JANE AUSTEN

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN

Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
JANE AUSTEN

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
JANE AUSTEN

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o...
JANE AUSTEN

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
JANE AUSTEN

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
JANE AUSTEN

There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman t...
JANE AUSTEN

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be...
JANE AUSTEN

I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.

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I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.

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