Quotes About Jodi Picoult

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

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

Kindle, isn't it?" the waitress asked. "I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I'm reading my way through all of Jodi Picoult's books." "Oh, probably not all of them," Wesley said. "Huh? Why not?" "She's probably got another one done already. That's all I meant." "And James Patterson's probably written one since he got up this morning!" she said, and went off chortling.

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.

never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring. . . the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring

Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.

I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget.

we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night- because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than the law.

never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring. . . the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring

That was how I learned that the world changes between heartbeats; that life is never an absolute, but always a wager.

That's a little unrealistic, don't you think? So was the Final Solution, but it got pretty far, Leo points out.

Nurse: You look like a pharmaceutical rep. you can leave samples in the closet. Joe: I'm actually a lawyer. Nurse: My condolences.

I honestly can't tell if [she's] being intentionally mean or is she's truly that stupid.

We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?

My father says that a fire will burn itself out, unless you open a window and give it fuel.

I'd make a snide comment about the youths of america but I'm too impressed by the fact that she's reading something other than Fifty Shades of Grey.

Jesse just smiles. He blows a smoke ring. Sis, he says, welcome to the Dark Side.

So what do you think the physical effect was? Roman Laughed. Buddy, he said, she was tripping.

Mooooooooooom!" When I yell like that, she can come quick as a ghost, the air empty one minute and full of her the next.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? —REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR

In my mind, Asperger's isn't a label to describe the traits Jacob has, but rather the ones he lost.

Her silhouette is obscenely green against the frost, as if she has left in her wake an artificial spring.