Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult
Jodi Lynn Picoultis an American author. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Picoult currently has approximately 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth19 May 1966
CountryUnited States of America
consider fiction form fun job looking multiple novel versions writer
Part of our job as a writer is to consider how we tell stories, ... This is one way of looking at multiple versions of storytelling. What is also fun about it is all fiction used to be illustrated, so in a way this very revolutionary form of novel is really going back to basics.
giving people fiction
Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction, and the very act of remembering involves chosing words, actions and images. In other words, any witness who was supposed to be giving a court facts is really just giving them a version of fiction.
thinking fiction use
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.
book thinking fiction
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.
fiction stories world
Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on.
lying secret fiction
Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.
mean lovely fiction
Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.
suffering fiction
That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?
characters create ordinary people
You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives.
admit bed beneath betrayal both deep digging felt matter mattress point shifted stone
Betrayal was a stone beneath the mattress of the bed you shared, something you felt digging into you no matter how you shifted position. What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?
happening horrible keeping kids shoulder spit
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.
ill
With a chronically ill child, there is only so much you can do for your other kids.
dry eventually hours involved natural selection since speaking talked wondered
She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, ever, would it eventually shrivel up and dry away? Was there a natural selection involved in not speaking up?
above case computer five issues letters pictures shelf spell wrote
On a shelf above my computer are five letters that spell out W-R-I-T-E. Just in case I forget why I'm there. I also have 'Wonder Woman' paraphernalia from when I wrote five issues of the comic, and pictures of my husband and kids.