3 Quotes & Sayings By Jill Mellick

Jill Mellick is the author of more than 100 books for children and young adults, including the award-winning What Happens at Night series. She has served on the faculty of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and has been a visiting professor at several universities. She received her Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1975 and is currently a full-time faculty member at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, California.

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We do not always need to "understand" or interpret dreams to receive their gifts to heart and soul. Rather, we can circumambulate them, respect them, let their images feed our imaginations and lead us onward, just as a glimpse of ocean or lake renews and orients and refreshes us on a long drive. Jill Mellick
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In this kind of personal artwork, jettison any idea that you can help yourself or others by interpreting, praising, or criticizing. These kinds of creative pieces and experiences are only for being with. The only helpful response is to nourish the imagination and your piece by associating other images to it and noticing what feelings it evokes in you. Jill Mellick