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
writing imagine easy
Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?
flower writing stories
I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into 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.
writing knowing feelings
Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind.
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.
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.
character writing thinking
When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.
bored either grade middle move
I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult book. When I get bored with one, I move to the other, and then I go back.
I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.
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.
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.
people
You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people.
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.