Jacqueline Wilson

Jacqueline Wilson, 2009

Jacqueline Wilson (born December 17, 1945) is an English children’s author.

Quotes

• I can’t think of a book where there’s a woman born into a working-class background, who in her 70s is living a very comfortable, upper-middle-class sort of life; a woman who married at 19, had a baby at 21, was a policeman’s wife for years, but whose marriage broke up in late middle age and who became very well known for a time. She then met a woman and became very happy with her. There isn’t one!
  • On how her life experience is more surreal than fiction in “Jacqueline Wilson: 'I've never really been in any kind of closet'” in The Guardian (2020 Apr 4)

• I don’t think that girls would ever have wanted a grey-haired, wrinkly writer as a role model if they were wanting to feel good about maybe being gay…I’m sure they could find much more glamorous examples.
  • On why she never wrote a children’s or young adult book addressing gayness in “Jacqueline Wilson: 'I've never really been in any kind of closet'” in The Guardian (2020 Apr 4)

• I’ve tried hard…I don’t know … my experience of my own dad and my own ex-husband possibly has some effect. I will remedy this. It is very unfair. I have tried harder, but I just can’t quite get there yet.
  • On why the lack of positive father figures in her novels in “Jacqueline Wilson: 'I've never really been in any kind of closet'” in The Guardian (2020 Apr 4)

• It is strange…that sometimes people assume the worst of children if they come from poor families. I remember being astonished when I took my daughter to a party given by her schoolfriend’s parents. They lived in a lovely, big house very near the block of council flats where I grew up. The mother was very friendly to me, and said how pleased she was that our daughters were friends because obviously she could have nothing to do with ‘those dreadful scary rough children from the council flats’. I didn’t want to embarrass her by saying that I had once been one of those very children.
  • On what she loves the most about the music business in “Jacqueline Wilson interview: ‘People say my books are all sex and drugs, but I can’t remember any’” in The Guardian (2015 Feb 6)