Quotes by : Jacqueline Woodson

You're writing, you're coasting, and you're thinking, 'This is the best thing I've ever written, and....

Maybe this is how it happened first for everyone —adults promising us their own failed future.

At the day's end, a writer lives alone with her story, wrestling with characters and settings, and the....

This is what kindness does, Ms.Albert said. Each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into the....

Who hasn't walked through a life of small tragedies? 'Sister Sonja often asked me, as though to understand....

Who hasn't walked through a life of small tragedies?

Do you remember?' Someone's always asking andsomeone else, always does

I was eleven, the idea of two identical digits in my age still new and spectacular and heartbreaking.....

Nothing in the world is like this-a bright white page withpale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened....

It's easier to make up storiesthan it is to write them down. When I speak, the words come pouring out....