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Jodi Picoult Quotes about Writing

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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.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

Writing, Might, Pages

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

Perseverance, Motivation, Writing

FAQs, www.jodipicoult.com. August 2016.

When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the biggest caveat for beginning writers. Instead, force yourself to finish what you began, and THEN go back and edit it.

Writing, Garbage, Force

FAQs, www.jodipicoult.com. August 2016.

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.

Beach, Book, Writing

Source: www.goodreads.com

"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, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won't let me." "Why not?" "He says lunch isn't a subject." I glance at him. "It isn't." "Well," Jacob says, "it's not a predicate, either. Shouldn't he know that?"

Teacher, Stupid, Writing

"House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

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 word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.

Writing, Mean, Example

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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 manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

Block, Believe, Writing

"Jodi Picoult on Writing, Publishing, and What She’s Reading". Interview with Noah Charney, www.thedailybeast.com. April 3, 2012.

Write a living will. And become an organ donor!

Writing, Donors, Organ Donor

Source: www.psychologytoday.com

The question I hate the most is "How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously!" I mean, do MALE authors get asked that??

Children, Hate, Writing

Source: nudge-book.com

You want to write something as good as what you've read.

Writing, Want

Source: www.seventeen.com

For me, every book is a journey - questioning a really difficult topic that most people don't want to talk about, much less write about. And that's what I need; that works for me as a writer.

Book, Writing, Journey

Source: www.goodreads.com

It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages.

Book, Writing, Kids

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.1408, Simon and Schuster

You need to learn to write on demand, and to get critiqued without flinching. When someone can rip your work to shreds without it feeling as though your arm has been hacked off, you're ready to send your novel off to an agent.

Rip, Writing, Feelings

FAQs, www.jodipicoult.com. August 2016.

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 experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

Book, Writing, Thinking

"Jodi Picoult Turns Tough Topics Into Best-Sellers". "Morning Edition", nhpr.org. March 13, 2012.

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 job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

Jobs, Writing, Thinking

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 this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

Drama, Writing, Able

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 front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.

Writing, Kids, Age

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 and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

Husband, Writing, Character

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 negative it hurts. I think when you write it’s part of the game, you’re going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that’s how it goes. I don’t write for the reviews.

Hurt, Writing, Thinking

"Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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.

Writing, Thinking, Issues

"Jodi Picoult Turns Tough Topics Into Best-Sellers". "Morning Edition" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. March 13, 2012.

I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms.

Writing, Kids, Hands

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 just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.

Book, Believe, Writing

Interview with Bob Abernethy, Bob Faw, www.pbs.org. April 24, 2009.

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

Writing, Character, Shoes

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 commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.

Reading, Writing, Guarantees That

"The great unknown". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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.

Writing, Ivory Tower, Three

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