What did Jane Yolen mean by: Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise. Jane Yolen Author Copy
+ You can only chase a butterfly for so long. Feraz Zeid, June 19, 2023January 2, 2025, Jane Yolen, Ephemerality, Limitations, Pursuit, 0 Jane Yolen Author
+ Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts. Feraz Zeid, June 30, 2023January 2, 2025, Jane Yolen, Development, Progression, Writing, 0 Jane Yolen Author
Wood may remain twenty years in the water, but it is still not a fish. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Yolen, Essence, Water, 0 Jane Yolen Author
If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Yolen, Talent, Writing, 0 Jane Yolen Author
+ Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. Feraz Zeid, February 7, 2023December 25, 2024, Jane Yolen, Childhood, Education, Influence, 0 Jane Yolen Author
+ Touch magic. Pass it on. Feraz Zeid, July 28, 2023January 2, 2025, Jane Yolen, Connection, Magic, Transformation, 0 Jane Yolen Author
+ Fish are not the best authority on water. Feraz Zeid, October 4, 2023January 2, 2025, Jane Yolen, Authority, Ignorance, Perspective, 0 Jane Yolen Author
+ Exercise the writing muscle every day. Feraz Zeid, August 29, 2023January 2, 2025, Jane Yolen, Consistency, Creative, Discipline, 0 Jane Yolen Author
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Read explanation Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. Maxwell Perkins Editor · USA
