Book Quotes by Jodi Picoult

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

— Jodi Picoult

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

— Jodi Picoult

Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

— Jodi Picoult

“Everyone has a book inside them - but it doesn't do an good until you pry it out.”

— Jodi Picoult

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

— Jodi Picoult

In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.

— Jodi Picoult

You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.

— Jodi Picoult

The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read…

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was…

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Jodi Picoult

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think…

— Jodi Picoult

In Poland, for a while, my books all had cartoons on the cover. I trust my publishers in each country to know…

— Jodi Picoult

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers…

— Jodi Picoult

For me, every book is a journey - questioning a really difficult topic that most people don't want to talk about, much…

— Jodi Picoult

“A level of a house, his father has told him, is called a story. Nathaniel likes that. It makes him feel like…

— Jodi Picoult

This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers…

— Jodi Picoult

She's not like anyone I've ever seen before. When I'm not with her, I want to be. And when she opens the…

— Jodi Picoult

“but when you held one of those volumes in your hands, you were leafing through another person’s life. Someone else had once…

— Jodi Picoult

May I ask you something?" I say. "Why do you read books, when you could be outside, living a million different adventures…

— Jodi Picoult

I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't…

— Jodi Picoult

“She’s not like anyone I’ve ever seen before. When I’m not with her, I want to be. And when she opens the…

— Jodi Picoult

I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks…

— Jodi Picoult

There are certain things that I'll hear about and that I think will make a great book and I put it in…

— Jodi Picoult

“My mother, who would always buy her books new, hated it the vintage hardcovers with their cracked spines and threadbare cloth covers.…

— Jodi Picoult

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because…

— Jodi Picoult

I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get…

— Jodi Picoult

“Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the…

— Jodi Picoult

It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is…

— 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,…

— Jodi Picoult

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three…

— Jodi Picoult

It's because of libraries that books like mine get recommended to book clubs and avid readers, who in turn pass them onto…

— Jodi Picoult

I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write…

— Jodi Picoult

“Because you can always count on a book to stay the same . Everything changes when you least expect it, she replies,…

— Jodi Picoult

Here I am, wasting away inside a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is stay in…

— Jodi Picoult

I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing…

— Jodi Picoult

“Personally, I like books that make you think – books you’re still wondering about three days after you finish them; books you…

— Jodi Picoult

I am always consulted about covers, and give feedback, but I am also aware that what causes a customer to pick a…

— Jodi Picoult

I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book... you get critical…

— Jodi Picoult

Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even…

— Jodi Picoult