Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I wanted to write the stories that were not in my childhood, to represent people who hadn't historically been represented in literature.

Jacqueline Woodson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 12, 1963

Topics

FaithChildhoodPeopleWritingStory

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.

John le Carre

FamilyMeClothesYouDirtyDown

Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.

John Major

EuropeCompeteWellEffectiveness

There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.

Jeb Bush

LivePeopleYoungYoung PeopleOur

I really enjoy my privacy and being able to walk my son to school every morning and pick him up every afternoon.

Solange Knowles

MorningSonWalkSchoolEnjoyHim

I am a smiling depressive.

Trisha Goddard

I AmSmilingAmDepressive

If you're a painter, you don't go, 'Abstract's really selling, so that's what I'm going to do.' If you're really truly an artist, you have to think what you're meant to paint.

Trisha Yearwood

ThinkYouArtistSellingGoPaint

I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.

Michelle Williams

FutureThinkSituationWillProject

It is not possible to go forward while looking back.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Looking BackLookingForwardBackGo

I have severe ADD, and I'm constantly looking to amuse myself.

Chelsea Handler

MyselfLookingAddSevereConstantly

When I'm close to the penalty area, that's where I feel more comfortable.

Antoine Griezmann

FeelComfortableMoreWhereI Feel

You don't set off in life to be mediocre. At least, I don't.

Willie Robertson

LifeYouOffSetMediocreLeast

There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isolated and not being able to rely on the rest of the world's infrastructure.

Peter Jackson

AttitudeWorldRestNewKindBeing

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