Quote

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore

Jodi Picoult

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Call
Transformed
Story
Definition
Ends
Stone
Stories
Definitions
Something
Stones
Anymore
Beginning
Middle

More quotes by Jodi Picoult

Image
I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all right. As unscientific as it seems, well, it would be nice to lay the responsibilities and pain on someone else's larger shoulders.
Jodi Picoult
Image
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
Image
The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.
Jodi Picoult
Image
If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Life can change in an instant don't be so worried about the future that you forget to celebrate what you have right now.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home
Jodi Picoult
Image
if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.
Jodi Picoult
Image
To me gay rights is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment.
Jodi Picoult
Image
You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.
Jodi Picoult
Image
It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.
Jodi Picoult
Image
I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.
Jodi Picoult
Image
It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.
Jodi Picoult
Image
Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.
Jodi Picoult
Image
In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn color your hair watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world or you can just jump off it.
Jodi Picoult
Image
And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal he'd rock back and forth he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts.
Jodi Picoult
Image
I have loved before, but it didn’t feel like this. I have kissed before, but it didn’t burn me alive. Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it’s an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is when it brushes against mine, and that, even if I did not know it until now, I have been waiting for this person forever.
Jodi Picoult