Books 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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 was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways…

— 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

You need to learn to write on demand, and to get critiqued without flinching. When someone can rip your work to shreds…

— Jodi Picoult

“I look at you and I see this amazing, beautiful thing. All these books and songs are written about people looking for…

— 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

“The story isn't mine to change anymore. Maybe it belonged to me at first, but now it belongs to you. And to…

— 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…

— 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

“Finally she found what she was looking for. “See, child?” she said, holding out a framed illustration that looked as if it…

— 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

“The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I…

— 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

“Being adopted felt like reading a book that had the first chapter ripped out. You might be enjoying the plot and the…

— Jodi Picoult

“I write because it’s a way of puzzling out answers to situations in the world that I don’t understand. The act of…

— Jodi Picoult

“You ask your readers if they can account for every minute of their lives, every thought in their heads, and be proud…

— 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

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

— Jodi Picoult

I think the reason these readers come back to me is because I represent their points of view. It may not be…

— Jodi Picoult

I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to…

— Jodi Picoult

I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they…

— 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

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