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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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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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She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.
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They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?
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This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.
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You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?
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She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.
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She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.
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In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.
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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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Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.
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Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.
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If he says jump, she doesn't even ask How high? She goes out and buys a pogo stick.
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It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.
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Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.
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Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.
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the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.
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Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore
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You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.
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The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.
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You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever
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