Latest Jacqueline Woodson Quotes from Interviews

• To watch your home change in front of you is surprising. But at the same time, going someplace like Mississippi, makes me appreciate even this.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Home, Appreciate, Watches

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• 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.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Home, Looks, Brooklyn

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• For me as a writer, it was understanding that we're so far behind in our way of dealing with death. We put someone in the ground, we bury them or we burn them, and then we're supposed to just move on and kind of get over it.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Moving, Understanding, Way

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• I always say I write because I have lots of questions, not because I have any answers.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Writing, Answers

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• 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.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Children, Thinking, Glasses

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• We live inside our parents' backstory.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Padres

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• I have met women who don't have close women friends, and I've always been like, "How could that possibly be?"

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Mets

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• Don't trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Mother, Ugly, Said

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• I don't know how women stop being friends with other women.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Saber cómo, saber

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• Where I grew up, it was all people who were black and Latino, people who look like me. Now I live in a neighborhood where very, very few people look like me.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  People, Black, Looks

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  People, Interpretation

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Together, Attention, Pay

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Escritura, sonido, aspecto

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• 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.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Voice, People, Scary

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  I've Learned, Prose, Marrying

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  He aprendido

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• I think I had gotten messages really young that poetry wasn't for me, that it was for, basically, some dead white men. My experience and my intellect was on the outside of understanding that. I think that's what's so destructive.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Hombres, Pensamiento, Hombre Blanco

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• That's what writing is. It's moving past your fear.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Moving, Writing, Past

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• I'm still afraid. I'm still afraid every day.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Fotogramas

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• As a poet who has the tools for interpreting the poem differently, you can begin to deconstruct it. But the human being who's like, "I know about conversation, I know about language, I know about hard times," will approach the poem differently.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Hard Times, Tools, Language

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• What you say is what matters.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Lo que importa, importa

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words in the middle of a sentence. It's about the rhythm and the cadence of the way we speak. It's about putting that down at the end of the day.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  The End Of The Day, Our Words, Cadence

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• I think that happens for a lot of people, they have this idea that there's only one type of way to write poetry and that you have to have this information. You have to know about meter, you have to know about form, you have to know about iambic pentameter, and all of that.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Escribir, pensar, ideas

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• 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

  Teacher, Lying, Writing

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• I think writers are the history keepers, right? We're the ones who are bearing witness to what's going on in the world. And I feel like it's our job to put that down on paper, and put it out into the world, so that it can be remembered.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Trabajo, Pensamiento, Mundo

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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