Jodi Picoult Quotes

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.

What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.

My life revolves around my writing, my wife and my son.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

Writing is what I do. It's what makes me tick.

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

My family had a lot to do with 'My Infamous Life.' They were the inspiration behind me starting to write. I had an interesting family life dating way back, and they did a lot in their lifetime.

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people's childhoods. When I was writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I had a blast talking on the phone to my younger brother, Patrick, remembering all of the things that happened to our family when we were growing up.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet.

Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.

I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we had to get something accepted by a national magazine to get an A. The teacher later withdrew that threat, but the writing bug bit me.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.