1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do

Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

Where did you go?" "To the end of the driveway," my mother says. "I was nine months pregnant; that was the maximum distance I could waddle without feeling as if my uterus was falling out." I wince. "Do you have to be quite so graphic?" "What would you like me to call it, Zoe? A fetal living room?

I only just found you, I can't lose you now

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.

Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

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.