You can’t have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can’t have too many books featuring white people. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
I always say I write because I have questions, not because I have answers. It’s true that you begin the conversation – that’s the role of the artist. But it’s not my job to tell us what to do next. I wish I had those tools. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
What I learned for myself… is that no matter what the circumstances, people survive. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn’t have had otherwise. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
I never know, when I start writing a story, what’s going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
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. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
I couldn’t be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I’m pretty optimistic. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
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 balance of how many letters are going to work to tell the story and how few are going to make it fall apart. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
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 stories that were not in my childhood, to represent people who hadn’t historically been represented in literature. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
