Jodi Picoult Quotes

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.
Jodi Picoult

Family, Morning, Thinking

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.
Jodi Picoult

Gay, Nothing, Different

I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.
Jodi Picoult

Spiritual, Feeling, Different

Researching 'Lone Wolf,' I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. There has never been a documented attack against a human by a wolf that wasn't provoked by the human.
Jodi Picoult

Human, Against, Thoughtful

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.
Jodi Picoult

Dreams, Family, Gay

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.
Jodi Picoult

Work, Waiting, Job

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
Jodi Picoult

Bad, Write, Might

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
Jodi Picoult

Work, Business, Friends

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.
Jodi Picoult

Write, Toward, Issues

It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.
Jodi Picoult

Change, Time, Mind

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.
Jodi Picoult

Happy, Book, Mean

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?
Jodi Picoult

Best, Future, Country

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.
Jodi Picoult

Life, Great, Husband

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.
Jodi Picoult

Good, Bad, Game

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

Good, Book, Everyone

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.
Jodi Picoult

Change, Mind, Care

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.
Jodi Picoult

Gay, Happen, Rights

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.
Jodi Picoult

Love, Big, Knowing

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.
Jodi Picoult

Time, Night, Before

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

Yourself, Live, Write

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.
Jodi Picoult

Life, Family, Crisis

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
Jodi Picoult

Anyone, Books, Childhood

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.
Jodi Picoult

Change, Alone, Minds

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.
Jodi Picoult

Age, Time, Writing

I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.
Jodi Picoult

Love, Care, Far

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: May 19, 1966

Links

Find on Amazon: Jodi Picoult

Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Related Authors

Mark Twain
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Zig Ziglar
Joseph Campbell
Tony Robbins
Leo Buscaglia
Anais Nin
More

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us