Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.
Jane YolenThe tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.
Jane YolenLanguage helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.
Jane YolenJust write. If you have to make a choice, if you say, 'Oh well, I'm going to put the writing away until my children are grown,' then you don't really want to be a writer. If you want to be a writer, you do your writing... If you don't do it, you probably don't want to be a writer, you just want to have written and be famousโwhich is very different.
Jane Yolen