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Writing Quotes by Jodi Picoult
- I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in…
- Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids…
- Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when I read something…
- I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.
- I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always…
- I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is…
- The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same…
- I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.
- I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow…
- You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
- Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a…
- I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of…
- If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social…
- 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…
- Stupid English." "English isn't stupid," I say. "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject,…
- The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
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- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov