Jacqueline Woodson: Quotes about people

Jacqueline Woodson is American writer. Explore interesting quotes on people.

Jacqueline Woodson: 36 quotes3 likes

“You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.”

Jacqueline Woodson

Source: The Dear One

“People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do… Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.”

Jacqueline Woodson

Source: The Dear One

“Sometimes… you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.”

Jacqueline Woodson

Source: Between Madison and Palmetto

“I think what happened was the language settled in me much deeper than it settled into people who just can read something once and absorb what they absorb of it. I feel like what I was absorbing was not by any means superficial. And I think I was - from a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for this deep understanding of the literature not simply to hear the story but to understand how the author got the story on the page…”

Jacqueline Woodson

On how she processed literature differently at an early age in “Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers” https://www.npr.org/2016/10/14/497953254/jacqueline-woodson-on-growing-up-coming-out-and-saying-hi-to-strangers in NPR (2016 Oct 14)