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
book my-favorite something-new
My favorite reader is one that revisits books and gets something new out of them each time.
book time-spent
I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories.
book writing thinking
Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel at the end of the book - And I try to write toward that feeling.
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.
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.
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,
african people understand
People who don't know what it's like to be an African American don't understand that it's OK, ... I never want to be other than an African American.
deal hope moved respects
To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it.
faith feeling frustrated people represent stories
When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I wanted to write the stories that were not in my childhood, to represent people who hadn't historically been represented in literature.
people
You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people.
awful bed change everyday needing thinking wake work
I think it's important that everyday we think about the work we need to do to make this world a better place. I mean, we should wake up thinking about it and go to bed thinking about tomorrow's tasks. There's an awful lot of change needing to be made around here.
asking people realized start talking time
I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a time when those people wouldn't be around to help me look back and remember.
african family grandma history interested talked
Before Grandma died, she talked about family history in a way she had never done before, ... She was interested in family history, especially African American women.