Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodsonis an American writer of books for children and adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, which won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac & D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth12 February 1963
CountryUnited States of America
character writing thinking
Mainly, I try not to think about my readers as I write - I just think of my characters and myself - If they're interesting to me, my hope is that they'll be interesting to others as well.
trying spinning world
I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living
wall tears want
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 the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?
block school heart
That's what makes best friends. It's not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school, but how you feel about each other in your hearts.
tears matter cry
No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.
people trying forget
Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.
heart forever my-heart
You're a part of me...You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right? —D
world enough ifs
If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee
pain color racism
Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.
book thinking boys
I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.
people pushing someday
You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.
understanding
In all your getting, get understanding.
hurt stars fall
I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes. Absence isn't solid the way death is. It's fluid, like language. And it hurts so much...so, so much.
writing thinking giving
I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world and sometimes giving isn't always the easiest thing to do but it comes back.