Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

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

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

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

Y'all know how much I love you? "Infinity and back again," I say the way I've said it a million time...

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

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

I know now that what is tragic isn’t the moment. It is the memory.

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

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

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

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

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

When there are many worldsyou can choose the oneyou walk into each day.

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

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

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

At the day's end, a writer lives alone with her story, wrestling with characters and settings, and t...