Jodi Picoult Quotes

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

It's important that a person doesn't lose track of himself.

I'm who I was waiting for. I didn't make it.

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.

How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

If you want to participate in life, you have to deny your identity.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.

I'm not sure if the passage of time affects our core identities so much as reveals them to us.

As I grow older, I feel like my authentic self has been able to shine through more and more, and people can see that.

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

A lot of time when you're out injured is spent with internal reflection and kind of looking at yourself in the mirror and deciding who you want to be and where you fit in.

I have definitely had a big impactful change since 2010, and it's rough to look in the mirror, but it's such an important thing to do that.