Jane Yolen Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Can lives that are merely constant be happy?If you asked Tom how he felt, he would have counted these out: wood, wind, waves. Not happy perhaps, but content.Ride Me Like a Wave (Stars anthology)

2. Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make a galaxy out of the chaos, can point to the fact that some people survived even as most people died. And can remind us that the swallows still sing around the smokestacks.

3. I think of death, not as a smokestack, but as an opening door. Mapping the Bones

4. In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but they move on from there. In poetry, especially confessional poetry but in other poetry as well, the poet is not writing characters so much as emotional truth wrapped in metaphor. Bam! Pow! A shot to the gut.

5. Part of her revolted against the insanity of the rules. Part of her was grateful. In a world of chaos, any guidelines helped. And she knew that each day she remained alive, she remained alive. One plus one plus one. The Devil's arithmetic...