Quotes by : Jacqueline Woodson

I knew I was lost inside the world, watching it and trying to understand why too often I felt like I....

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....

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?

My mother has a gap betweenher two front teeth. So does Daddy Gunnar.Each child in this family has the....

Creating a novel means moving into the past, the hoped for, the imagined. It is an emotional journey,....

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

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