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Jodi Picoult
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"I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I’m totally obsessed with technology. I’m always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail."
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Jodi Picoult
Topic(s):
Technology
"There’s that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success."
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Jodi Picoult
Topic(s):
Success
"Many of my books come from what if questions that I can’t answer, things that I’m worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American."
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Jodi Picoult
Topic(s):
Mom
"I feel I’m able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won’t have to live through it, I guess."
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Jodi Picoult
Topic(s):
Family
"I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack."
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Jodi Picoult
Topic(s):
Family
"The act of writing… is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that’s the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books."
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Jodi Picoult
Topic(s):
Experience
"Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch ‘American Idol’ and video their children’s concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do."
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Jodi Picoult
Topic(s):
Dreams
"I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years – particularly ‘My Sister’s Keeper.’ It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people’s minds."
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Jodi Picoult
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Change
"It’s certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time."
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Jodi Picoult
Topic(s):
Change
"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."
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Jodi Picoult
Topic(s):
Business
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