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 Copy Share Image
I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I pulled word after word from my core, like silk for a spider’s web, spinning a make-believe life. That’s why we read… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If you don't believe in yourself, and you don't have the fortitude to make that dream happen, why should the hotshots in… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I try really hard to ask people to take a look at their bookshelves. Are there female writers on it? Gay writers?… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
For me, every book is a journey - questioning a really difficult topic that most people don't want to talk about, much… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You need to learn to write on demand, and to get critiqued without flinching. When someone can rip your work to shreds… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Stupid English." "English isn't stupid," I say. "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it -… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids'… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I don't want to tell people what to think. I'm the least qualified person in the world for that. If I'd go… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book... you get critical… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The question I hate the most is "How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously!" I mean,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Let me guess," Eric says, "You never meant for it to happen." "Hell, yes, I did. I've wanted her since you two started dating."… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It’s the difference between dancing along the eggshell crust of acquaintance and diving into the messy center of a relationship.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I love feeling loved. I don't love knowing that I will always come in second place. I love the fact that at least sometimes… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them. My” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“When she had packed all the artifacts that made up their personal history into liquor store boxes, the house became strictly a feminine place.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
