I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena — 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
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
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
I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I remember my mother would get upset with me 'cause she said I walked like my dad. But I think it was… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I think that happens for a lot of people, they have this idea that there's only one type of way to write… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Mainly, I try not to think about my readers as I write - I just think of my characters and myself -… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me! — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of silence. You know, I'm not afraid to sit in a room and have the conversation drop into silence.… — 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
I think I had gotten messages really young that poetry wasn't for me, that it was for, basically, some dead white men.… — 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
Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that… — 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
