#us

The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#bodies #branches #direct #elections #exception

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#different #four #gay #i #i wish

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. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#buy #day #days #down #every

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#business #friends #i #involve #likely

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

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

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 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 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. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#computer #every #front #function #got

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