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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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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.
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There's no way to explain to a child that the line between good and evil isn't nearly as black and white as a fairy tale would lead you to believe. That an ordinary person can turn into a villain, under the right circumstances. That sometimes we dragon slayers do things we aren't proud of.
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I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a series with the same character, and I couldn't write a romance novel over and over again that takes place at a different beach every year. That's not who I am.
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I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.
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I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep and so you wake up with his hand on your heart.
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I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.
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I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.
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I know you love me. The question is, how much?
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A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.
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The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.
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Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down.
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if you don't get sick, you won't get well.
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The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.
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Maybe Fate isn't the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild until you are weary enough to be reeled back in.
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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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It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.
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I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us.
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Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.
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Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.
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