Author: Jacqueline Woodson

Quotes

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

- Jacqueline Woodson

In the family, writing wasn't anything anyone understood - being a writer in the real world? How could it be? We didn't have those mirrors.

In the family, writing wasn't anything anyone understood - being a writer in the real world? How could it be? We didn't have those mirrors.

- Jacqueline Woodson

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.

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.

- Jacqueline Woodson

Friendship is such an important thing to me, and I feel like the people who I love and help keep me whole - I can't imagine a life without them.

Friendship is such an important thing to me, and I feel like the people who I love and help keep me whole - I can't imagine a life without them.

- Jacqueline Woodson

I deeply believe in many Christian values: love people; do the right thing; know that there's good in everyone, that God's looking out for all of us.

I deeply believe in many Christian values: love people; do the right thing; know that there's good in everyone, that God's looking out for all of us.

- Jacqueline Woodson

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

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

- Jacqueline Woodson

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