#ted

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'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrific guy when I was 23. I have great, well-adjusted kids. Sometimes my husband and I look at each other and do a little jig in the kitchen. This is the best life. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#childhood #each #great #guy #had

If a woman writes about family and about the connections between people and what it means to be alive in this day and time, it's called women's fiction. And if a man does it, it's nominated for a National Book Award. What - you can't have a heart and a penis? That doesn't make sense. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#alive #award #between #book #called

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

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion. ↗

— Franklin Pierce

#discussion #frequently #more #protracted #subject

I always wanted a little brother because I felt like the little brother had to do everything. ↗

— Paul Pierce

#because #brother #everything #felt #had

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#granted #guess #i #people #respectability

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

#archbishop #canon #cardinal #could #entered

My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#i #live #long #long time #me

As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#beach #collected #i #kid #least