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Jodi Picoult is an American best-selling author known for her emotionally rich and engaging novels. Her works often revolve around family, legal, and moral dilemmas, and are highly appreciated by readers.

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Famous Jodi Picoult Quotes

“The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.”

Pain Past Diamond Coal Past Pain

Book:Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

“Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to.”

Want Children Matter Age Five Favors Your Children Thirty Attributes Going To Work

Book:Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“Honey, Kate is not going to die sooner because you have one more glass of mine, or because you stay overnight in a hotel, or because you let yourself crack up at a bad joke. So sit your ass back down and turn up the volume and act like you're a normal person.”

Persons Dies Turns Mines Like You Normal Jokes Down And Glasses Ass Hotel Cracks Honey Volume Kate Bad Jokes

Author:Jodi Picoult

“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.”

Thinking Knows Writing Answers Interesting Issues

Author:Jodi Picoult

“My friends say I have two speeds: fast and blistering.”

Two My Friends Speed

Author:Jodi Picoult

“People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.”

People Different Together Mass Tradition Rallying Banding Together

Author:Jodi Picoult

“I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms.”

Way Writing Sometimes Hands Kids Used Arms Let Me Driving Desks

Author:Jodi Picoult

“I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life.”

Mean Book Opinion Fans Changed Particular Letters Reviewers

Author:Jodi Picoult

“The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed.”

Ifs Firsts Heart Persons Made Soul Your Soul Doomed First Person

Author:Jodi Picoult

“There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.”

Awards Unwritten Schism

Author:Jodi Picoult

“You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.”

People Fall Falling In Love Steers

Book:Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices

Source: Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices

“Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem.”

Ifs Mind Use Problem Pain Past Ego Performances Entertainment Insight Therapy Slips Music Therapy

Author:Jodi Picoult

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

World Mind Able Bits Honor Tiny Hopefully Changing The World

Author:Jodi Picoult

“I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room-but eventually, you learn to live with it.”

Thinking Rooms Grief Corners Ugly Couches Slap Doilies

Book:Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel

Source: Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel

“I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.”

Thinking Book Fiction Reader

Author:Jodi Picoult

“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.”

Thinking Writing Believe Hands Night Too Much College Paper Don't Believe Dues Block Manage Blocked Writer's Block

Author: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 these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Believe Persons Stills Book Let Me Don't Believe Carpet

Author: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 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.”

People Thinking Way Book Would Be Care Belief Willing Normal Including Circles Handle My Sister Keepers My Sister's Keeper Sisters Keeper Handle With Care

Author:Jodi Picoult

“The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.”

Thinking Writing Trying Book Opinion Reader Picks

Author:Jodi Picoult

“I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.”

Writing Character Shoes

Author:Jodi Picoult

“Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.”

People Block Luxury Writer's Block

Author:Jodi Picoult

About the Author

Born: May 19, 1966
Known for: Author
Quotes: 1371

Books & Sources

My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A NovelRelated source material

My Sister's KeeperRelated source material

Handle with Care: A NovelRelated source material

The StorytellerRelated source material

Between the LinesRelated source material

The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen MinutesRelated source material

Vanishing ActsRelated source material

My Sister's Keeper: A NovelRelated source material

The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House RulesRelated source material

Sing You Home: A NovelRelated source material

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