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You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.
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There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster.
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I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page you can't edit a blank page.
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I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.
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The question I hate the most is How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously! I mean, do MALE authors get asked that??
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No one gets to start where they left off it just doesn't work that way.
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See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it
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The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.
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In fairytales, when the mask came off, the handsome prince still loved the girl, no matter what -and that alone would turn her into a princess.
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I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.
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A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod.
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Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.
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There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.
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How do you tell someone that you weren't the person he thought you were? And more importantly, how did you tell him that you'd meant the things you'd said, when everything else about you turned out to be a lie.
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As it turned out, though, it was a lot easier to say that someone deserved to die for what they did than it was to take the responsibility to make that happen.
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A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.
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There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie, Connor said. Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.
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Sometimes when you find something you didn't really realize you were looking for, you just don't know how to react.
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The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.
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The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.
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