327 Quotes by Jacqueline Woodson

I think when I was a young person, there was just kind of - there was very little dialogue about it. And there was just kind of one way to be gay, right? You saw very effeminate guys. You saw very butch women. And there was no kind of in-between. And there was no - you know, there wasn't anything in the media. There wasn't anything on television.

I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature.

I write for whoever needs to read it.

I'm fascinated by adult women who don't have close friends and how that could come to be. I think when you're a kid, the relationships are so intimate, and you're so connected to your girls, so what becomes of them? What could possibly happen to have you become an adult woman and no longer have that?

I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.

My mom was a big fan of Al Green... James Brown we weren't allowed to listen to, so of course I knew James Brown.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

The conscious imprinting that happens between, say, 10 and 16 is huge. I think it's so important for me as a writer to stay open to the memories of that period because they were so formative.

Greenville, S.C., in the 1970s is a rolling green dream in my memory now.