Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing? — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic. — 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
In writing 'Another Brooklyn,' I had to imagine what happens when friendships dissolve. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
The writing that I have found to be most false is the writing that doesn't offer hope. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by questions I have that I try to figure out the answers to through my writing. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
My writing is inspired by where I come from, where I am today, and where I hope to go some day. — 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
In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying,… — 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
For me as a writer, it was understanding that we're so far behind in our way of dealing with death. We put… — 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
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 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
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
Who are you without your girls? I truly believe that. Who are you without the people who help you make sense of… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“You're writing, you're coasting, and you're thinking, 'This is the best thing I've ever written, and it's coming so easily, and these… — 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
I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live… — 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
Everything I write, I read aloud. It has to sound a certain way and look a certain way on page. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I always say I write because I have lots of questions, not because I have any answers. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
In the family, writing wasn't anything anyone understood - being a writer in the real world? How could it be? We didn't… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change. — 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
The conscious imprinting that happens between, say, 10 and 16 is huge. I think it's so important for me as a writer… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I… — 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
From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I always say I write because I have questions, not because I have answers. It's true that you begin the conversation -… — 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
