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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.
Jacqueline Woodson
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Jacqueline Woodson
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 12
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Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together—make myself into one whole person like everybody else.
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Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?
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But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.
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I definitely believe in a greater good. I definitely believe that there's a reason each of us is here and that we've been brought here to do something. And we need to get busy doing it. And I definitely believe that there is something moving us forward that's good.
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I have met women who don't have close women friends, and I've always been like, How could that possibly be?
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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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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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Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.
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I don't know how women stop being friends with other women.
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I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.
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I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.
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Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.
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Maybe this was our last summer as best friends. I feel like something's going to change now and I'm not going to be able to change it back. —Margaret
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When you think of how a child experiences a series of events, it feels, for so long, like she's looking at everything from behind this glass and it's obscured.
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I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.
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I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy an 'undone' book so the hard part is making it a book that at least ten other people want to pay for to read.
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I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.
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