Jacqueline Woodson Book Quotations

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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