Jane Yolen Quotes

It's fun to write about myself, but I feel like I would bore people with that.

Everything I write is about me.

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.

I've never been a confessional writer.

I see myself in everything I write. All the good guys are me.

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

I don't worry about being exposed. When I'm writing about myself I think about myself as a character. There is a ton of stuff going on in my life that I don't write about. If I need to write that stuff down, I write about myself in my diary.

...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.

I think all writing is necessarily autobiographical to a greater or lesser extent, and the less it tries to be confessional, the more likely it is that you're somehow sneaking the things you need to say in there.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.

In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

I've always kept a journal and brought storytelling into my teaching.

We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, stands before us.

There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel.

I've always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you're still alive.

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies.

In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.