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Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

Jacqueline Woodson

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Jacqueline Woodson
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 12
Novelist
Poet
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Columbus
Ohio
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Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel at the end of the book - And I try to write toward that feeling.
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Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.
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From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature not simply to hear the story but to understand how the author got the story on the page.
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No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.
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I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.
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There's me in every character I put on the pages.
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Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.
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I'm not afraid of silence. You know, I'm not afraid to sit in a room and have the conversation drop into silence. I think that's a very southern thing.
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Even with all of its changing, Brooklyn's architecture still feels like home, the language feels like home. It's changing so quickly that it's surprising. It's surprising still, when someone looks kind of askance to see me walking towards them.
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There is so much work left to be done in the world and for me, I am hoping to make the change I can and do the work I need to do through this gift I've been given.
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I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world and sometimes giving isn't always the easiest thing to do but it comes back.
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Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.
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I feel like so much of what I'm doing is making a road where there is no road and inviting people on that road with me. It's scary. It's scary, but I can't listen to the voices that are saying form is the only way, or that there is only this kind of form or that kind of form.
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I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, Hey, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my time on this earth with. And if you miss it, or walk away from it, or even maybe, blink - it's gone.
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The Bible is big in the religion, treating people as you want to be treated.
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When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.
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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've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.
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I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic.
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I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together.
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