Jodi Picoult Quotes

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

It's probably cliche to say this, but in my experience, people are far more alike than they are dissimilar.

No matter where you come from, we all share the same struggles as human beings, and my beginning is no different.

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

The ways in which we are similar are far more numerous than the ways in which we are different.

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

I like it that in many ways we are all the same.

Among the most striking things that I have learned is how much we have in common. I've sat down with people everywhere, discussing what was in their hearts and on their minds. And it doesn't take long to find commonality, which is often overlooked, ignored, dismissed, and rejected otherwise.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.

I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

There are so many people in the world with so many different perspectives. But ultimately, at the heart of it, they're people.

We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.