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If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.


Jodi Picoult


#book #caught #changing #characters #fiction

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.


Jodi Picoult


#also #commentary #first #good #guarantee

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.


Jodi Picoult


#birth #could #distracted #done #every

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.


Franklin Pierce


#confederacy #dangers #disregarded #general #government

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.


Steven Pinker


#even #genes #most #possibility #reflect

Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.


Robert Urich


#always #attack #best #charge #control

People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.


Jodi Picoult


#against #always #banding #different #masses

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.


Jodi Picoult


#criticism #get #give #learn #read

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.


Jodi Picoult


#get #literary #schism #success #unwritten

When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can.


Jodi Picoult


#decide #finish #fix #force #garbage






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