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Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen
American Writer
Born: Feb 11, 1939
Best Book Books Picture Writing You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, and 'Devil's Arithmetic,' how can the public make sense of that! I have fans who think I only write picture books or only write SF and fantasy. I have fanatics of my poetry and are stunned to find out I write prose, too! Jane Yolen
Best You Fans Moon Picture Devil Sense Think Too Books Out Find Dinosaur Only Poetry Write Prose Arithmetic Picture Books Stunned Make How Selling Owl Fanatics Public Fantasy Realize Who
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. Jane Yolen
Picture Believe Please Everything Books Eye Both Writers Picture Books Aloud Well Read Listeners Different Novels Ear
Why am I working so hard? Going for 400 books, perhaps, but who's really counting? Jane Yolen
Books Counting Perhaps Am Going Really Working Hard Why
I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing words. Jane Yolen
Wonderful Words Amazing Picture Think Books Picture Books Children Should Full Stretch
It seems like I've been writing since birth! I started writing poems before I got to school. I wrote the class musical in first grade - both words and music. It was about a bunch of vegetables who got together in a salad. I played the chief carrot! Jane Yolen
Music Class Together Writing Words Vegetables School First Before Birth Musical Carrot About Seems Poems Both Since First Grade Like Wrote Got Salad Been Chief Bunch Grade Who Played Started
While I was in junior high, I wrote an entire essay in rhyme about manufacturing in New York State. In high school, I won a Scholastic poetry contest. Jane Yolen
School State High High School Entire About Poetry Scholastic New Wrote Contest Won Junior Junior High York Essay New York New York State Rhyme While Manufacturing
Write every day. You don't have to write about anything specific, but you should exercise your writing muscle constantly. Jane Yolen
Day You Every Day Writing Every Constantly About Write Exercise Anything Should Your Specific Muscle
I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul. Jane Yolen
Soul Poet Journalist Pocketbook My Soul Began

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