Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

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.

Jacqueline Woodson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveJourneyPeopleMeWriting

There is no direct and immediate connection between the individual citizens of a state and the general government. The relation between them is through the state. The Union is a union of states as communities and not a union of individuals.

John C. Calhoun

GovernmentConnectionIndividual

Only World War II, which mobilized 10 million draftees, could by any stretch of the imagination be called a people's war.

John Gregory Dunne

ImaginationWarPeopleWorldStretch

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

John Hodgman

ExperiencePeopleSocietyRunBecome

I'm introverted, and I pay attention to my muse... Record companies used to go mad and say 'We don't know the deal with you. You have no continuity at all. You give us 'Addicted to Love,' and you're a rock n' roll star, then you give us 'She Makes My Day,' and what's that?' But that was a hit, too. It either gets across or it doesn't.

Robert Palmer

LoveDayAttentionYouMadKnow

In film, if you've got to do a scene in a swimming pool, you do a scene in a swimming pool. If you've got to blow up a car, you blow up a car. In theater, you can't do that, and therefore, you have the opportunity to engage the audience's imagination in a way that's rich.

John Tiffany

CarOpportunityImaginationSwimming

The most beautiful girl in the room not only gets the guy, she lands the job, gets better service at a restaurant, rises through the social ranks before her friends. Doors open for the beautiful woman that may not for a female who is twice as smart but half as beautiful.

Amanda de Cadenet

GirlBeautifulServiceJobWoman

A lot of times, really wonderful things that have come my way have come basically out of the blue.

Stacey D'Erasmo

BlueWayOutWonderfulThingsCome

I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.

Steven Adler

TimeTiredSickYouFeelingDown

I was pretty shy, not too outgoing.

Robert Cray

ShyPrettyOutgoingToo

Making 'Caddyshack' was like an exercise in controlled chaos.

Michael O'Keefe

ChaosExerciseLikeMaking

Being productive at work is rewarding, and feeling supported, challenged, and appreciated allows us to be our most efficient selves.

Julia Hartz

WorkFeelingAppreciatedBeingUs

I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors.

Joseph Monninger

FamilyLiveBeautifulTimeRiver

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