I think writers are the history keepers, right? We're the ones who are bearing witness to what's going on in the world.… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Maybe this was our last summer as best friends. I feel like something's going to change now and I'm not going to… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
That's what makes best friends. It's not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school,… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Even with all of its changing, Brooklyn's architecture still feels like home, the language feels like home. It's changing so quickly that… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I feel like so much of what I'm doing is making a road where there is no road and inviting people on… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
When you think of how a child experiences a series of events, it feels, for so long, like she's looking at everything… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“Feels like I've known him since before he got to the world—longer than he knew himself, truthfully. Seems like we'd been friends… — 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
