#hi

You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard. ↗

— Midge Ure

#down #expression #fingers #get #give

Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#book #books #break #call #chapters

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. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#because #being #characters #come #even

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. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#bad #every #game #get #goes

For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#care #change #controversial #facets #her

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#because #been #born #gay #gay rights

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. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#always #before #believe #block #blocked

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#anyone #assumed #autobiographical #because #books

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. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#because #gravitated #i #i think #interesting

I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#beliefs #books #care #changes #circle