Back Quote by Jodi Picoult

Everyone still deserves to have their say.

— Jodi Picoult

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

— Philip Roth

“We must work—in the words of New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton—to really see each other. Perhaps the reason we struggle as a…

— Historica Press

“Writers write for the same reason readers read. We want to know how it ends, too.”

— Robynn Tolbert

There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are not yet…

— Caroline Gordon

As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that…

— Calamity Jane

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies…

— John Sherman Cooper

What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to…

— John Avlon

The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and…

— Ellsworth Huntington

Don't be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of…

— Robert Dallek

I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure,…

— Crescent Dragonwagon

I never give anyone advice: it can backfire horribly. In the 1950s, Eric Morecambe told Ken Dodd to get his teeth fixed. But those…

— Paul Merton