Finding Baba Yaga Quotes

“Like the piano player, I have memory in my fingertips. I watch words spill out creating worlds, inventing colors, bridging generations.”
― Jane Yolen, Finding Baba Yaga

“You think you know this story.
You do not.”
― Jane Yolen, Finding Baba Yaga

“Stories retold are stories remade.”
― Jane Yolen, Finding Baba Yaga

“The Baba gives me paper, and a pen that sputters ink. Write, she says, tell the true Though you may have to lie to do it.”
― Jane Yolen, Finding Baba Yaga

“No one sees her of course. She doesn’t exist unless you count bad dreams. Yet still she flies,”
― Jane Yolen, Finding Baba Yaga

“Words shouldn’t be dirty or clean
But definitely sweet,
On the tongue, in the mind.”
― Jane Yolen, Finding Baba Yaga

“You want to tell this story,
perhaps now you will.”
― Jane Yolen, Finding Baba Yaga

“And the deep thrumming
of the forest that too many people
mistake for silence.”
― Jane Yolen, Finding Baba Yaga

“I’ve many questions, but am not eager to know the Baba’s answers. They’ll be hard kernels between my teeth. Biting down becomes a question of physics, a reply only dentists can give.”
― Jane Yolen, Finding Baba Yaga

“I learned to write poetry, telling the truth through metaphor, simile, straight-forward lies.”
― Jane Yolen, Finding Baba Yaga

“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 truth. All I can start with is Once Upon A Time, that oldest and truest of lies.”
― Jane Yolen, Finding Baba Yaga

“She’s gone on that long road into adulthood from which none of us returns.”
― Jane Yolen, Finding Baba Yaga

“Somewhere becomes a nightmare. I knock on no doors, make no phone calls. Nowhere becomes my destination. You can find it on the blank spaces of any free map in any old store. Just turn a corner of your mind, and it’s there.”
― Jane Yolen, Finding Baba Yaga