OnceOnce, oh once, there was, was not,A girl, princess, mermaid, widow, witch, queen, wife,A boy, king, soldier, wizard, troll, giants,MagicLife. The tale turns, returns, confuses, confesses,And all t...
Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.
JANE: What to do when it is that time in your girl child's life:1. Sit down calmly and explain sex to her?2. Buy her a book, video, or CD that gives her the details?3. Buy her condoms and put her on t...
I must fill myself with sorrow if I am to give you what you want.
How can this be, this great magic, that makes real the unreal, the not-actual into a kind of factless fictual, turns lies into the True? Don’t ask me, for I am new at this work, new at telling my own...
Hans was never good at giving proper answers. He always had different answers in his head, odd answers, answers that his teachers and his parents and his grandmother and even his crazy grandfather see...
Come, Ye Women Oh, come, ye women of the Isles, And listen to my song, For if ye be but thirteen years, Ye’ve not been women long. And if ye be threescore and ten, No longer women be, Or so say all th...
As Mama once told me, We called him Boy for the first two months of his life, but when his third-month birthday came around and we saw that sweet smile—especially when you were close to him, reaching...
As I thought about endings and – being a lover of fairy tales – I knew immediately that the deeply rooted last line in folk stories, ‘And they lived happily ever after’, is the core of what we think w...
Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked door.
All around the castle, a briary hedge began to grow, with thorns as sharp as barbs.
A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole.
1. Write every day2. Write what interests you.3. Write for the child inside of you. (Or the adult, if you are writing adult books.)4. Write with honest emotion5. Be careful of being facile6. Be wary o...
From Taking Your Clothes to the Salvation Army:Okay, so strangers will be grateful for this, will wear the socks to keep their feet warm, blow their noses in your handkerchiefs, pull up the shorts, tu...
You see, my dear ice witch, I have had the love of from all over the world because of my stories. A child's love is the perfect love, for it is given with a whole heart. That love will outlast me a h...
We’re lucky we don’t have to share. Lots of people have to—you told me so yourself. Share? Gittel had looked appalled. Chaim remembered the face she’d made at the time, adding, Papa, we have so little...
Welcome to Neverland, Peter said, as if this were supposed to be a big surprise. Darla took her hand away from his. It’s smaller than I thought it would be, she said. This time she looked right at him...
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.
She lay curled up on the ground, one scrawny hand held out as if begging, the other clutching a doll as ragged as she. But her mouth was open, her eyes wide, unblinking. There was a bullet hole in her...
Passover isn't about eating, Hannah, her mother began at last, sighing and pushing her fingers through her silver-streaked hair. You could have fooled me, Hannah muttered.