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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.
— Jane Yolen
Tags: life, hope, holocaust

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Myths are stories that explain a natural phenomenon. Before humans found scientific explanations for such things as the moon and the sun and rainbows, they tried to understand them by telling stories.
— Jane Yolen
Tags: things, understand, moon, sun
Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are plenty of editors, reviewers, critics, and book buyers to do that.
— Jane Yolen
Tags: writing, professional, book, you
I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.
— Jane Yolen
Tags: journalist, poet, my-soul, soul
In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. It was a nonfiction book about women pirates - 'Pirates in Petticoats.' After that, I was a book writer for good.
— Jane Yolen
Tags: book, birthday, good, women
I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing words.
— Jane Yolen
Tags: picture, amazing, words, children
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