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I think my writing has become cleaner.
Jodi Picoult
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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Technically I've improved - I might turn a metaphor in five words now, where years ago, it would have taken me a paragraph. I can't say it was intentional - but you know what they say about practice making perfect...!
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A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.
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You okay in there? No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.
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From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest. Darkness, you know, is relative.
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I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said.
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The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.
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do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?
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I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
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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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