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
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.
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.
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.
teacher lying kids
When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.
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.
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 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 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 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.
dream people library
There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.
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.
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.
diversity together world
Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.