Jacqueline Woodson Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Life Changing, Believe, Book

  "Jacqueline Woodson On Being A 'Brown Girl' Who Dreams". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. September 18, 2014.

• My favorite reader is one that revisits books and gets something new out of them each time.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Book, My Favorite, Something New

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• 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.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Book, Thinking, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is still in a draft stage and that before it can leave the writer's hands and head to a publisher, it needs about five more revisions. Some people don't want to do that.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Book, Hands, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Book, Stories, Time Spent

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Book, Boys, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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