Jane Yolen

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

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

'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.

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.

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

Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different culture, a different tongue for a child who has already mastered Elvish, respected Puddleglums, or fallen under the spell of dark-skinned Ged?

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

'Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the ones that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.

Touch magic. Pass it on.