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I think it's so important that, if I'm writing about the real world, I stay true to it. I think that kids do compartmentalize, and they're hopefully able to see it from a safe place of their own lives and, through that, learn something about empathy.

I feel like I am walking in some amazing footsteps of writers who have come before me, like S.E. Hinton, Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Paul Curtis, Richard Peck and Kate DiCamillo, who I love.

Jacqueline Woodson

Hope is universal.

Jacqueline Woodson

I would have written 'Brown Girl Dreaming' if no one had ever wanted to buy it, if it went nowhere but inside a desk drawer that my own children pulled out one day to find a tool for survival, a symbol of how strong we are and how much we've come through.

Jacqueline Woodson

The conscious imprinting that happens between, say, 10 and 16 is huge. I think it's so important for me as a writer to stay open to the memories of that period because they were so formative.

Jacqueline Woodson

I think it's so important that, if I'm writing about the real world, I stay true to it. I think that kids do compartmentalize, and they're hopefully able to see it from a safe place of their own lives and, through that, learn something about empathy.

Jacqueline Woodson

In writing 'Another Brooklyn,' I had to imagine what happens when friendships dissolve.

Jacqueline Woodson

I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.

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I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

Jacqueline Woodson

My grandparents were wealthy; my mom was not. I would walk into these worlds of privilege and then walk back into this other world. My little brother is biracial. So race and economic class and sexuality - these were always issues that were a part of my life.

Jacqueline Woodson

Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like them, and to have windows if the stories are about people who have been historically absent in literature.

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I think there is much more queer visibility than there was when I was a kid. There is marriage, more trans visibility, and many more celebrities who are open about the sexuality. This was so not the case when I was a kid.

Jacqueline Woodson

I'm usually working on several things at once. If I get bored with one, I can go on to another. That way, I never get stuck.

Jacqueline Woodson

We, as adults, are the gatekeepers, and we have to check our own fears at the door because we want our children to be smarter than we are. We want them to be more fully human than we are.

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Labeling is not the best way to get young people to deeply engage in reading.

Jacqueline Woodson

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

Jacqueline Woodson

When someone says to me, 'I love your book - I read it in a day,' I want to tell them to go back and read it again.

Jacqueline Woodson

A 10-year-old knows a lot. If you think she or he isn't noticing the world around them, you're missing a lot.

Jacqueline Woodson

Until I was about 13, Manhattan had been a world seen from its edges.

Jacqueline Woodson

As a child in South Carolina, I spent summers like so many children - sitting on my grandparents' back porch with my siblings, spitting watermelon seeds into the garden or, even worse, swallowing them and trembling as my older brother and sister spoke of the vine that was probably already growing in my belly.

Jacqueline Woodson

I rewrite a lot until I get the rhythm and story right on the page.

Jacqueline Woodson

Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it.

Jacqueline Woodson

By the time I was in fifth grade, I was dreaming of the Pulitzer Prize.

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People want to know and understand each other across lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability.

Jacqueline Woodson

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.

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I didn't have any idea of what I was getting into by going away to college. And I was scared. I was scared of failing. I was scared of it not being for me because I was going to be one of the first people in my family to go off to college.

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I think that's important: to know 'the other,' as a means of coming to understanding.

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I write for whoever needs to read it.

Jacqueline Woodson

When I was a child, we never began a meal without prayer. We thanked God for the food, for each other.

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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.

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My writing is inspired by where I come from, where I am today, and where I hope to go some day.

Jacqueline Woodson

What I learned for myself... is that no matter what the circumstances, people survive.

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The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates.

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The hardest part is telling one's story. Once the story is on the page, the rest will come.

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I love playing with form. I love playing with sounds... I love music, and I love writing that has a musicality to it.

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I think people are willing to talk about anything if you come to it with kindness.

Jacqueline Woodson

What I write comes from a place of deep love, and a deep understanding of all kinds of otherness.

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