You need to learn to write on demand, and to get critiqued without flinching. When someone can rip your work to shreds… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If you don't believe in yourself, and you don't have the fortitude to make that dream happen, why should the hotshots in… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Let me guess," Eric says, "You never meant for it to happen." "Hell, yes, I did. I've wanted her since you two started dating."… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It’s the difference between dancing along the eggshell crust of acquaintance and diving into the messy center of a relationship.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I love feeling loved. I don't love knowing that I will always come in second place. I love the fact that at least sometimes… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them. My” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“When she had packed all the artifacts that made up their personal history into liquor store boxes, the house became strictly a feminine place.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Here's what I hadn't realized : the mother you haven't seen for almost 36 years isn't your mother. She is a stranger. Sharing DNA… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image