I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“That's good. Always take the time. You really never know when you're not going to have it anymore.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
By the time I was in fifth grade, I was dreaming of the Pulitzer Prize. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Memory doesn't come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“Life...moves us through all the time changes. All kinds of changes. And we're made so that we roll and move with it.… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“You know how many more rich Negroes there'd be if we wasn't all the time trying to pay off some lawyer or… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
With my writing, I try to do stuff I have not done before. Each time I sit down, I want to have… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, "Hey, this is the person I want to… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“I don't know," he said softly. "I look into the future and I don't see anything else. It's like it's this big… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I can't write about nice, easy topics because that won't change the world. And I do want to change the world -… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Told a lot of stories as a child. Not 'Once upon a time' stories but, basically, outright lies. I loved lying and… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
A long time ago, Anne used to talk about energy-how that was all that love was-ions connecting across synapses of time and… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“This is how the time moves - an hour here, a day somewhere, and then it's night and then it's morning. A… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
As a person of color, as a woman, as a body moving through this particular space in time, I realize the streets… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
As a poet who has the tools for interpreting the poem differently, you can begin to deconstruct it. But the human being… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and you're already old or you already… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“That's all anybody is-themselves. People all the time wanting to change that.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“Kids are something. All they can see is the beauty in a moment.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
In young adult novels and children's books, you stay in moment. The story goes through a school year or a weekend. You… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is still in… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
I think, even though homophobia still exists, there is much more of a dialogue and a taboo around being homophobic. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
I still love Carson McCullers and Raymond Carver and Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
I'm usually working on several things at once. If I get bored with one, I can go on to another. That way, I never… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
“That's all anybody is-themselves. People all the time wanting to change that.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
Who are you without your girls? I truly believe that. Who are you without the people who help you make sense of the misogyny,… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
“And freedom? Oh, freedom. Well that's just some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world all alone.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
You're a part of me...You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right? —D — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
I wouldn't mind the early autumn if you came home today I'd tell you how much I miss you and know I'd be okay.… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
'Another Brooklyn' came to me in this kind of dreamlike series of vignettes. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
“They're all inside of us,...past people and present people. And probably even the people we'll become.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying, write it… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
