Jodi Picoult Quotes
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When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.
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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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I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!
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If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?
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You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
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If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?
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Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, … It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.
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I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.