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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 33

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Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

Block, Luxury, People

When your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

Heaven, Hell, Existence

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

A duck walks into a bar and the bartender asks, what'll it be? The duck doesn't answer because it's a duck.

Ducks, Bars, Answers

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.417, Simon and Schuster

Maybe Fate isn't the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild until you are weary enough to be reeled back in.

Running, Fate, Swim

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

It's because of libraries that books like mine get recommended to book clubs and avid readers, who in turn pass them onto others looking to be whisked away from the world for a little while...and perhaps to learn a bit about themselves in the process.

Book, Avid, Library

You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.

Daughter, Running, Sex

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.

Mean, Fantasy, Permanent

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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 that their straight counterparts do.

Dream, Religious, Children

"A conversation with Jodi about Sing You Home". www.jodipicoult.com.

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

Giving, Criticism, Writing Workshop

Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2008.

Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.

Book, Mean, Two

"The great unknown". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

Jobs, Writing, Thinking

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

Thinking, Knowing, People

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.

Thinking, Fiction, Use

"The great unknown". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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 life.

Husband, Kids, Childhood

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.

Issues, Mind, Important

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, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

Drama, Writing, Able

I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand on his forehead to warn us away. Criminals sit next to us on the bus. They pack our groceries and cash our paychecks for us and teach our children. They look no different from you or me. And that's why they get away with it.

Children, Thug, Leather Jackets

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turnec the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, bus as long as Em was with him, he was at home?

Rain, Home, Hair

I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.

Love, My Boyfriend, Upset

When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about you from a mile away. You can disappear, even when it looks like you're still standing right there. You can scream, and nobody hears a sound. You become the mutant who fell into the vat of acid, the Joker who can't remove his mask, the bionic man who's missing all his limbs and none of his heart. You are the thing that used to be normal, but that was so long ago, you can't even remember what it was like.

Heart, Eye, Men

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

Q: How would you like your eggs in the morning? A: Unfertilized

Morning, Eggs

I know you love me. The question is, how much?

I Know You Love Me, Knows

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Mercy”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly.

Love Is, Looks, Way

Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?

Art, Believe, Guy

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do." I sat down beside her, close enough that the skin of her arm hummed right next to mine. "You really believe that?" She looked down at her lap "Yeah." Then how," I asked, "can you walk away from me?

Believe, Hands, Helping Someone

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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