Quotes by : Jane Yolen

Touch magic. Pass it on.

Because though women lie when they have to and men lie all the time, the mirror always tells the truth.....

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

I contend that good children's stories are always about the Getting of Wisdom. That's another way of....

Ah—now you think I have been lying to you, that this is only a story. It has a king in it. And while....

I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look....

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

from Taking Your Clothes to the Salvation Army:Okay, so strangers will be grateful for this, will wear....

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

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