Quotes from Aaron Shepard

The old tales of China tell us that all things may grow and change. A stone may become a plant. A plant may become an animal. An animal may become a human. A human may become a god. Just so, a snake may become a woman. And we are told of one who did.

However honest you may be, your heart is small and your fist is tight. Fall again, mount again, learn how to count again!

Don't blurt out your theme. Let it emerge from the story.

Don't blurt out your theme. Let it emerge from the story. If you must come out and say it, do it in dialog, not narration.

If you must come out and say it, do it in dialog, not narration.

Avoid preaching. Children's stories should be explorations of life

And this, they say, is how thirteen became the "baker's dozen"—a custom common for over a century, and alive in some places to this day.

Especially good spirits might be brought to the Land of Darkness only briefly or not at all.

Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.

We find our power in the same place as our pain.