To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
What I write comes from a place of deep love, and a deep understanding of all kinds of otherness. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Friendship is such an important thing to me, and I feel like the people who I love and help keep me whole… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I still love Carson McCullers and Raymond Carver and Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I love playing with form. I love playing with sounds... I love music, and I love writing that has a musicality to… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
When someone says to me, 'I love your book - I read it in a day,' I want to tell them to… — 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
I feel like I am walking in some amazing footsteps of writers who have come before me, like S.E. Hinton, Walter Dean… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“And sometimes,' Anne said softly, 'there's just plain love, Ellie. no reason for it, no need to explain' Then she leaned back… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I deeply believe in many Christian values: love people; do the right thing; know that there's good in everyone, that God's looking… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“He wondered where that stuff went to, where love went to, how a person could just love somebody one day and boom… — 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 Image
I think, even though homophobia still exists, there is much more of a dialogue and a taboo around being homophobic. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I still love Carson McCullers and Raymond Carver and Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“That's all anybody is-themselves. People all the time wanting to change that.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
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 Image
“And freedom? Oh, freedom. Well that's just some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world all alone.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
You're a part of me...You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right? —D — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
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 Image
