Quotes by Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson

A long time ago, Anne used to talk about energy – how that was all that love was – ions connecting across synapses of time and air. Don’t rationalize, she’d say. None of it will ever make sense. I leaned back against the wall and closed my eyes, not wanting to cry. Anne was right. None of it made any sense.

Eye

Life

Wall

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.

Book

Hands

People

As a poet who has the tools for interpreting the poem differently, you can begin to deconstruct it. But the human being who’s like, “I know about conversation, I know about language, I know about hard times,” will approach the poem differently.

Hard Times

Language

Tools

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

Writing

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

Butterfly

Forever

Paper

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

Diversity

Together

World

Don’t trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours.

Mother

Said

Ugly

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

Just Listen

Silence

Stories

Even with all of its changing, Brooklyn’s architecture still feels like home, the language feels like home. It’s changing so quickly that it’s surprising. It’s surprising still, when someone looks kind of askance to see me walking towards them.

Brooklyn

Home

Looks

Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.

Looks

Sound

Writing

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Able

Age

Answers

Appreciate

Attention

Believe

Bigs

Black

Block

Blue

Book

Boys

Brain

Broke

Brooklyn

Butterfly

Cadence

Character

Children

Color

Copies

Cry

Dad

Deep Understanding

Diversity

Done

Dream

Easy

Enough

Expectations

Eye

Fall

Feelings

Feet

Fifteen

Flower

Forever

Giving

Glasses

Gone

Hands

Happens

Hard Times

Heart

Heterosexuality

Home

Hurt

I've Learned

Ideas

Ifs

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Quotes by Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson

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.

As a poet who has the tools for interpreting the poem differently, you can begin to deconstruct it. But the human being who’s like, “I know about conversation, I know about language, I know about hard times,” will approach the poem differently.

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.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

Don’t trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours.

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

Even with all of its changing, Brooklyn’s architecture still feels like home, the language feels like home. It’s changing so quickly that it’s surprising. It’s surprising still, when someone looks kind of askance to see me walking towards them.

Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.

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