Jodi Picoult Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

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

  Jodi Picoult

  Book

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2008.

• I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Somewhere Else, Pages

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

• When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Wanted

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

• How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Reading, Stories

• This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.

  Jodi Picoult

  Regret, Book, Reading

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

• May I ask you something?" I say. "Why do you read books, when you could be outside, living a million different adventures every day?" "Because you can always count on a book to stay the same. EVerything else changes when you least expect it," she replies, bitter. "Families split apart, and nothing's forever. In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Adventure, Forever

• Here I am, wasting away inside a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is stay in the story. If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I’d ask her why on earth she would ever trade a single second of the world she’s in for the one in which I’m stuck

  Jodi Picoult

  Girl, Book, Here I Am

  Shannon Messenger, Suzanne Young, Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer, Lauren Barnholdt (2013). “Get a Taste of Pulseit!: Free Pulseit eSampler”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

• Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Book, Once Upon A Time

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

• Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Sometimes, Speak

• You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.

  Jodi Picoult

  Real, Book, May

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

• She's not like anyone I've ever seen before. When I'm not with her, I want to be. And when she opens the book and I see her face, I can barely remember what I'm supposed to say, much less how to speak at all." I test the words on my tongue. "I think I might be in love with her. But how can I really know, since the only love I've ever experienced was written for me?

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Thinking, Want

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

• 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

  Book, Mean, Two

  "The great unknown". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

• Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mom, Book, Wife

• 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.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Mean, Fans

• The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always an easy book to write.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Writing, Challenges

  Source: www.goodreads.com

• 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.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Wind, Gone

  Source: www.canadianliving.com

• 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

  Book, Childhood, Trauma

• 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.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Thinking, Fiction

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

• 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.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Writing, Journey

  Source: www.goodreads.com

• I haven't run out of ideas yet. Usually while I'm working on a book, I'm doing research for the next one!

  Jodi Picoult

  Running, Book, Ideas

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• 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

  Book, Years, People

• 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.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Believe, Writing

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, Bob Faw, www.pbs.org. April 24, 2009.

• 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.

• 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

  Book, Thinking, Circles

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 24, 2009.

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