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
moving believe needs
I definitely believe in a greater good. I definitely believe that there's a reason each of us is here and that we've been brought here to do something. And we need to get busy doing it. And I definitely believe that there is something moving us forward that's good.
thinking people silence
I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I have no tolerance for people who are not thinking deeply about things. I have no tolerance for the kind of small talk that people need to fill silence. And I have no tolerance for people just not being a part of the world and being in it and trying to change it.
happens seems
Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.
book thinking people
I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy an 'undone' book so the hard part is making it a book that at least ten other people want to pay for to read.
believe perfect one-day
I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.
diversity together world
Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
silence stories just-listen
Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.
book people
A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is still in a draft stage and that before it can leave the writer's hands and head to a publisher, it needs about five more revisions. Some people don't want to do that.
life-changing book believe
I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise,
reading deep-understanding age
From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not simply to hear the story but to understand how the author got the story on the page.
nice laughing world
Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.
character writing thinking
When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.
worry judging people
People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.
butterfly forever paper
But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.