Quotes by Jodi Picoult

About Jodi Picoult:

Jodi Lynn Picoult is an American author. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Picoult currently has approximately 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide.
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Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved.

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Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

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When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after having given birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend ...

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I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.

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Do you ever go back?" Ruthann nods, "When I need to remember where I came from, or where I'm headed.

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Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.

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When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

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We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I will remember what Eric says even though he doesn't say ...

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For God's sake, if I learned anything during this damn trial it's that the only way someone can leave you is if you let them. And I'm not doing that, Dee. It may look like that today, or tomorrow, or even a month from now, but one day you're going to...

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...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

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How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.

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I'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrific guy when I was 23. I have great, well-adjusted kids. Sometimes my husband and I look at each other and do a little jig in the kitchen. This is the best...

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As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter ...

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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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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,...

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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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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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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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For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.

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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 th...

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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...

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Author Bio

  • NameJodi Picoult
  • DescriptionBetween the lines (2012)
  • BornMay 19, 1966
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters; Novelist; Writer