Jodi Picoult Quotes

The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and wanted to create a whole world out of words, too.

The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.

Hopefully, more and more people will come to understand that a child who's "different from" is not one who is "lesser than."

I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!

I think that different things sell in different countries.

To me, a good event is governed by the audience.

Stem cell research has become such a polarizing issue in America... and I wanted to bring it down to the personal level, instead of the political.

I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child.

A lot of the hallmark behaviors of autism - flat affect, stimming, not looking someone in the eye - could very easily be misinterpreted as signs of guilt.

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

Everyone still deserves to have their say.

Sometimes when you find something you didn't really realize you were looking for, you just don't know how to react.

The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always an easy book to write.

I think my writing has become "cleaner."

Many people have a novel inside them, but most don't bother to get it out.

I haven't run out of ideas yet. Usually while I'm working on a book, I'm doing research for the next one!

Write a living will. And become an organ donor!

In Poland, for a while, my books all had cartoons on the cover. I trust my publishers in each country to know what works in their individual markets.

I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!

The question I hate the most is "How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously!" I mean, do MALE authors get asked that??

You want to write something as good as what you've read.

I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.

For me, every book is a journey - questioning a really difficult topic that most people don't want to talk about, much less write about. And that's what I need; that works for me as a writer.

The ideas choose me, not the other way around.

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for, " Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to.

A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.

Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

When it rains, " her father said "it pours.

Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest?

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father, " she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

Dylan Jerome, " the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

They go on to this better place, you know, which is what they wanted all along. But you and me, we're still left behind with all the questions they couldn't answer.

Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?

You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

I lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice.""Sure it does, " Izzy tells me. "But only if you're too dumb to move.

males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.

because in the past words have only driven them apart.

And if you don't find what you're looking for?"At Roy's question Addie looked up."Then all I've lost is time.

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

A robber? In the trash bins? Honestly, Wes. This is Salem Falls, not the set of Law and Order.

You'd be surprised." Charlie said."You go to bed one night singing her a lullaby, and she wakes up listening to Limp Bizkit.""What the hell is Limp Bizkit?

If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?

So what do you think the physical effect was?"Roman Laughed. "Buddy, " he said, "she was tripping.

He kissed her so gently she wondered if she had imagined it