Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 44

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• 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.

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  Writing, Kids, Age

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• Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dream, Morning, Night

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.

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  Dream, Giving Up, Mean

  Jodi Picoult (1995). “Harvesting the Heart: A Novel”, p.18, Penguin

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• 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?

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  Country, Believe, Punishment

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• 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.

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  Husband, Writing, Character

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• 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.

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  Hurt, Writing, Thinking

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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

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  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  "A conversation with Jodi about Sing You Home". www.jodipicoult.com.

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• In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.

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  Book, Next, Surprise

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.

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  Lying, Men, Class

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear.

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  Stars, Night, Mourning

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel”, p.244, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

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  Children, Age, Favors

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Glasses, Normal, Cracks

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• 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.

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  Writing, Thinking, Issues

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

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

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  Two, Speed, My Friends

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• 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.

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  People, Together, Different

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• 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.

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  Writing, Kids, Hands

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• I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!

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  Ethical Issues, Answers, Moral

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.592, Simon and Schuster

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• There are certain things that I'll hear about and that I think will make a great book and I put it in a file. Sometimes it's a situation that interests me, and I don't even realize what I'm trying to say about it until I get closer to it. Sometimes the book after that I've written 125 pages of, and I can tell you what the book is after that. I just sort of have a linear progression, but more than anything, the topics land in your lap. I don't feel that I go out searching for them.

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  Book, Thinking, Land

  "Thinking a Little Harder". Interview with Nikki Tranter, www.popmatters.com. May 4, 2005.

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• I can get 400 pages down the road and still not know the answer. What I do know is that I have really examined every facet of the situation, and I may not have changed my opinion but I have definitely forced myself to explore why it's my opinion.

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  Answers, May, Pages

  "Thinking a Little Harder". Interview with Nikki Tranter, www.popmatters.com. May 4, 2005.

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• I keep quite busy, walk 5 miles a day, and have an excellent hairdresser who keeps the gray out of my red hair.

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  Hair, Red, Busy

  Source: nudge-book.com

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• In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.

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  Moving, White, America

  Source: nudge-book.com

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• Life can change in an instant.

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  Instant, Life Can Change In An Instant

  Source: www.canadianliving.com

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• The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and wanted to create a whole world out of words, too.

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  Book, Wind, Gone

  Source: www.canadianliving.com

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• I think that different things sell in different countries.

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  Country, Thinking, Different

  Source: nudge-book.com

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• Stem cell research has become such a polarizing issue in America... and I wanted to bring it down to the personal level, instead of the political.

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  Issues, Cells, America

  Source: www.canadianliving.com

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