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I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.
— Jodi Picoult Handle with Care
Tags: obsession, love

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Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.
— Jodi Picoult
Tags: get, give, criticism, you
There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.
— Jodi Picoult
Tags: literary, awards, get, success
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
Tags: great, you, me, life
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
Tags: more, way, age, time
My friends say I have two speeds: fast and blistering.
— Jodi Picoult
Tags: fast, two, say, friends
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