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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 42

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I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life.

I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life.

Book, Mean, Fans

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

Awards, Schism, Unwritten

"Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview With Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

Honor, Mind, World

"Religion & Ethics Newsweekly", www.pbs.org. April 24, 2009.

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

Book, Thinking, Fiction

"Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.

Book, Believe, Writing

Interview with Bob Abernethy, Bob Faw, www.pbs.org. April 24, 2009.

I think many of my books, including "Handle with Care," including "My Sister's Keeper" circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.

Book, Thinking, Circles

"Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 24, 2009.

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

Writing, Character, Shoes

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.

Book, Childhood, Trauma

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.

Book, Years, People

I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think there are a lot of readers who would like to see reviews that belong in the range of commercial fiction rather than making the blanket assumption that all commercial fiction is unworthy.

New York, Men, Thinking

"Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.

Technology, Fans, Answers

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.

Reading, Writing, Guarantees That

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

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.

Writing, Ivory Tower, Three

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

Love, Anniversary, Boyfriend

FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Oct 02, 2015

What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.

Baby, Stars, Father

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. "She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the way they were, and that she wished she could stop everything from changing. She got really nervous, like, talking about the future. She once told me that she could see herself now, and she could also see the kind of life she wanted to have - kids, husband, suburbs, you know - but she couldn't figure out how to get from point A to point B.

Husband, Kids, Talking

Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.

What If, Might, Cases

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.1152, Simon and Schuster

I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.

Fall, Watches, Wonderland

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.

Moving, Dumb, Lightning

They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.

Blood, Sick, Attention

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together.

Together, Were Not Meant To Be, Littles

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Keeping Faith”, p.11, Harper Collins

Dr. Keller begins pacing. "I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard...the words..they sound alike." What do you mean?" Your daughter," Dr. Keller says flatly. "I think she's seeing God.

Daughter, Mean, Thinking

It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same.

Thinking, Support, Yards

Objection!" Metz shouts. Grounds?" the judge asks. Well...he's my witness!

Judging, Witness, Wells

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was... ...Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. I sat between my mother and my father, watching strangers on TV carry in Shaker rockers and dusty paintings and ancient beer tankards and cranberry glass dishes; people and their hidden treasures, who had to be told by experts that they'd taken something incredibly precious for granted.

Mother, Growing Up, Father

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