American - Writer | February 12, 1963 -
I wrote all the time, and I had teachers who encouraged it.
Jacqueline Woodson
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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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'Another Brooklyn' came to me in this kind of dreamlike series of vignettes.
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I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature.
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'Brown Girl Dreaming' was a book I had a lot of doubts about - mainly, would this story be meaningful to anyone besides me? My editor, Nancy Paulsen, kept assuring me, but there were moments when I was in a really sad place with the story for so many reasons. It wasn't an easy book to write - emotionally, physically, or creatively.
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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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People want to know and understand each other across lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability.
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Labeling is not the best way to get young people to deeply engage in reading.
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Reading equals hope times change.
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With my writing, I try to do stuff I have not done before. Each time I sit down, I want to have a new experience, and by extension, I want my readers to have a different experience.
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Memory doesn't come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space.
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If you have no road map, you have to create your own.
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