Jodi Picoult quotes - page 25

Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out. (Jodi Picoult)
I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight. View quote
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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. View quote
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People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses. View quote
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I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think. View quote
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Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism. View quote
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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. (Jodi Picoult)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success. View quote
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Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it's part of the game, you're going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that's how it goes. I don't write for the reviews. View quote
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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, probably. View quote
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I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write. View quote
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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, then I won't have to live through it, I guess. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms. View quote
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My friends say I have two speeds: fast and blistering. (Jodi Picoult)
Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American. View quote
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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. View quote
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Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time. View quote
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There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet. But there are one or two you are tied to, and the spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right. View quote
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