Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult
Jodi Lynn Picoultis an American author. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Picoult currently has approximately 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth19 May 1966
CountryUnited States of America
block believe hands
I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.
writing want
You want to write something as good as what you've read.
people novel bother
Many people have a novel inside them, but most don't bother to get it out.
drama ideas sticks
I start by mulling a question and before I know it, a whole drama is unfolding in my head. Often, an idea sticks before I know what I'm going to do with it.
mom book ifs-and
I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks me - via a question I can't answer as a mom, a wife, a woman, an American. I find myself wondering "What if..." and it blossoms into a whole novel.
dream believe thinking
If you don't believe in yourself, and you don't have the fortitude to make that dream happen, why should the hotshots in the publishing world take a chance on you? I don't believe that you need an MFA to be a writer, but I do think you need to take some good workshops.
sometimes realizing know-how
Sometimes when you find something you didn't really realize you were looking for, you just don't know how to react.
answers may pages
I can get 400 pages down the road and still not know the answer. What I do know is that I have really examined every facet of the situation, and I may not have changed my opinion but I have definitely forced myself to explore why it's my opinion.
matter holes
It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.
night world want
There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.
spit porridge
Who spit in your porridge?
dying stories reason
Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.
character talking tip-of-the-iceberg
Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.
real book may
You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.