Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 26

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• 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.

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  Suicide, Teenager, Gay

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• Everyone still deserves to have their say.

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  Stills, Deserve

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book... you get critical reviews and sales figures, but none of that is the same as knowing you've made a person stay up all night reading, or helped them have a good cry, or really touched their life.

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  Book, Reading, Night

  FAQs, www.jodipicoult.com. August 2016.

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• Many people have a novel inside them, but most don't bother to get it out.

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  People, Novel, Bother

  FAQs, www.jodipicoult.com. August 2016.

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• To me, a good event is governed by the audience.

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  Events, Audience

  Source: nudge-book.com

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• A lot of the moms of autistic kids I met are so consumed with being their child's advocate that there's no room for anything else - least of all themselves. It's why so many marriages end in divorce, when a child is diagnosed on the spectrum.

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  Mom, Children, Kids

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.593, Simon and Schuster

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• Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still wondering about three days after you finish them; books you hand to a friend and say "Read this, so we can talk about it."

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  Book, Thinking, Doors

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.467, Simon and Schuster

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• In Poland, for a while, my books all had cartoons on the cover. I trust my publishers in each country to know what works in their individual markets.

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  Country, Book, Cartoon

  Source: nudge-book.com

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• I am always consulted about covers, and give feedback, but I am also aware that what causes a customer to pick a book up off a shelf in the UK is very different from what causes a customer to pick a book up in the US.

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  Book, Giving, Different

  Source: nudge-book.com

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• I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!

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  Events, Reader, Meetings

  Source: nudge-book.com

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• The question I hate the most is "How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously!" I mean, do MALE authors get asked that??

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  Children, Hate, Writing

  Source: nudge-book.com

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• Maybe knowing where you belong is not equal to knowing who you are.

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  Knowing Who You Are, Where You Belong, Equal

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, Sage, Jesus didn't tell us to forgive everyone. He said turn the other cheek, but only if you the one who was hit. Even the Lord's Prayer says it loud and clear: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Not others. What Jesus challenges us to do is to let go of the wrong done to you personally, not the wrong done to someone else. But most Christians incorrectly assume that this means that being a good christian means forgiving all sins, and the sinners.

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  Christian, Letting Go, Jesus

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• I try really hard to ask people to take a look at their bookshelves. Are there female writers on it? Gay writers? Writers of color? There should be.

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  Gay, Color, People

  Source: nudge-book.com

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• 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 around pretending to be the expert on everything, I'd become Dan Brown, and I don't understand that. We all do our research if we're good writers, and we all work hard to get it right, but that doesn't mean we're experts in the field. The best we can do is challenge people to learn the facts themselves.

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  Hard Work, Mean, Thinking

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• You want to write something as good as what you've read.

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  Writing, Want

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• 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 you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.

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  Block, Believe, Hands

  Source: www.zip06.com

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• To me gay rights is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment.

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  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  Source: www.afterellen.com

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• Any time you put on the mouthpiece of somebody that you're not, there's a professional responsibility to get it right. I did a great deal of research in both of those arenas.

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  Responsibility, Research, Arena

  Source: www.afterellen.com

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• For me, every book is a journey - questioning a really difficult topic that most people don't want to talk about, much less write about. And that's what I need; that works for me as a writer.

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  Book, Writing, Journey

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero and a comfort all at once. If only I'd had her, surely, she would have been the answer to every problem; if only I'd had her , she would have been the cure for everything that ever had gone wrong in my life.

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  Mother, Children, Superhero

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.521, Simon and Schuster

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• I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.

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  Years, Want, Said

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• Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

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  Spiritual, Punishment, Exclusive

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?

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  Eye, Forever

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.404, Simon and Schuster

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• Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on.

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  Fiction, Stories, World

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