Jodi Picoult Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to mine. Write the books, spit three times over your shoulder and you're safe.”

“My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?”

“I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”