Jodi Picoult Quotes

Writing is like any other sort of sport. In order for you to get better at it, you have to exercise the muscle.

I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginning to learn how to do the job well.

Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.

What I've learned is that you get better at writing by writing, and that 'youthful energy' will only get you so far.

But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.

Writing teaches writing.

The more you draw, the better you get.

It takes practice to do anything unique within this field, period, in writing, practice doing anything unique in writing.

You play like you practice and practice how you play.

Songwriting is a muscle. The more you do it, the better you get at it.

The sooner you start writing songs, the sooner you'll get better.

After writing quite a few songs now, I have not a method but a way of being patient with a couple of verses or a certain set of chords. I can match them up quicker now than I used to. The one thing you do improve is songwriting.

Anytime that you're getting games in, you're going to get better.

Whether I'm playing right now or not, I still have an opportunity to get better in practice. It's like sharpening my blade.

If you're any good at all at what you do, you get better the more you do it.

A company gets better at the things it practices.

If you're not playing really well, practices can sort of correct it.

Experimenting is part of the process. I remember when I was younger, I spent a whole year just writing on straight trap beats because I just wanted to be able to do that at a high level. So it's about perfecting your craft in every way.

Practice helps you reduce your mistakes.

To develop your own voice, you have to keep writing a ton, and this is something where I think Twitter is helpful. I use it to write a ton of jokes. You have to write a ton of bad stuff before you know what you're good at. And that's what some people I think have trouble with, the thought of getting past the bad stuff.

What can cake teach you about life? That practice makes perfect, and if you try something once, it probably won't be perfect, and you have to keep working on it if you want to be good at it.

Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.