Jodi Picoult Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

  Jodi Picoult

  Character, Irritation, People

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.350, Simon and Schuster

• Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

  Jodi Picoult

  Character, Talking, Tip Of The Iceberg

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

• I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a series with the same character, and I couldn't write a romance novel over and over again that takes place at a different beach every year. That's not who I am.

  Jodi Picoult

  Beach, Book, Writing

  Source: www.goodreads.com

• If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Character, Reality

  "Jodi Picoult Turns Tough Topics Into Best-Sellers". Morning Edition, www.npr.org. March 13, 2012.

• 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

  Husband, Writing, Character

• 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

  Writing, Character, Shoes

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