Jodi Picoult Quotes

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

I didn't want to write the same book over and over.

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that.

What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new and interesting ways.

I have to challenge myself, and I have to challenge the reader. We should be weaving and working on new stories and not the same story over and over.

I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.

Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the outside to be different, but they're really not. And that's a different kind of mindset. I don't know why it is, but I just feel like I really want to escape myself as much as I can - myself as the artist, or as the writer, or as the thinker - with each new project, because one, it's just boredom, but also, I guess I just feel most comfortable starting a new book if I just feel a little in the dark about it.

I know that the way to be a really successful writer is to write the same kind of book over and over again. Find the kind of thing that people like and just write one of those over and over again. I don't do that. I just keep doing different things.

I try not to repeat a story. I try not to repeat an emotion. I want it to be all sort of new for the viewers and to challenge myself as a writer, so there's always pressure. What else can you come up with?

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

I've always really enjoyed writing different things because I get bored very easily.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that with my talent. I don't think it would come off.

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing story, is immensely exciting, terrifying and ultimately rewarding.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.