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I've never read any of her books, so I've got no context apart from admiring the directness and obviousness of this statement from Jodi Picoult about her writing habits:

"I may write garbage, but you can always edit garbage. You can't edit a blank page."

Isn't it really that simple?

Kicks

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October, 2007 Film Viewings

October One- The Wire 3.3
October Four- Pittsburgh (2006)
October Five- Shut Up and Sing
October Six- Cat People (Tourneur, 1942)
October Eight- The Black Dahlia (DePalma, 2005)
October Nine- Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Story, 2007)
Prison Town, U.S.A. (POV)
No Angels in the Outfield (POV)
October Fourteen- Little Miss Sunshine
October Sixteen- For Your Consideration (Guest, 2006)
October Eighteen- Viridiana (Bunuel, 1961)
October Nineteen- Dough & Stuff (Puiu, 2001)
October Twenty- Eastern Promises (Cronenberg, 2007)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik, 2007)
October Twenty-One- The Devil Came on Horseback (Sundberg and Stern, 2007)
Several Vitaphone Shorts
The Wire 1.1
October Twenty-Two- Fast Food Nation (Linklater, 2006)
October Twenty-Four- The Wire 1.2
October Twenty-Five- The Wire 1.3
October Twenty-Six- The Pursuit of Happyness
October Twenty-Seven- R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: Don't Even Think About It
Into the Wild (Penn, 2007)
October Twenty-Eight- The Wire 1.4, 1.5
October Twenty-Nine- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)
October Thirty- The Wire 1.6
October Thirty-One- The Wire 1.7, 1.8