Jacqueline Woodson Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• 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

• 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

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Flower, Writing, Stories

• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

• Sometimes, I don't know that words for things,
  how to write down the feeling of knowing
  that every dying person leaves something behind.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Writing, Knowing, Feelings

  Jacqueline Woodson (2014). “Brown Girl Dreaming”, p.247, Penguin

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

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Moving, Writing, Past

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.teachingbooks.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

  Writing, Sound, Looks

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Writing, Imagine, Easy

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Writing, Answers

  Source: therumpus.net

• Mainly, I try not to think about my readers as I write - I just think of my characters and myself - If they're interesting to me, my hope is that they'll be interesting to others as well.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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