American - Writer | February 12, 1963 -
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
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I think, as a kid, turning on the television and seeing that everyone seemed to be wealthy and white made me feel like an outsider, lesser than. I was not wealthy. I was not white.
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When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.'
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I feel like once I say out loud, to the public, what I'm working on, it's never going to be an actual book. So until it's close to done, I keep pretty quiet about my next stuff!
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I love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed my own journey as a writer.
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I didn't know how many independent bookstores had amazing wine lists until I toured with 'Another Brooklyn.'
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I don't believe there are 'struggling' readers, 'advanced' readers, or 'non' readers.
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The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history and the history of millions of African Americans who left those oppressive conditions for better lives in the North. It's important to put that on the page.
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In young adult novels and children's books, you stay in moment. The story goes through a school year or a weekend. You never get a sense of a future self because the young person has not lived that yet.
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I rewrite a lot until I get the rhythm and story right on the page.
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Everything I write, I read aloud. It has to sound a certain way and look a certain way on page.
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I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.
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