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10 quotes by Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson (born February 12, 1963) is 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. Her work is filled with strong African-American themes, generally aimed at a young adult audience. For her lifetime contribution as a children's...
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Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

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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... →

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The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.

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I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

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You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people.

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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... →

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The epistolary form is one of the hardest to write. It's so hard to show something that's bigger in a letter. Plus, you have to have the... →

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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... →

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I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.

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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.

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