#boo

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. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#book #choose #commercial #dead #fiction

I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#changed #fans #get #how #i

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. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#books #happen #happening #horrible #horrible things

I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#books #carpet #find #footing #going

If a woman writes about family and about the connections between people and what it means to be alive in this day and time, it's called women's fiction. And if a man does it, it's nominated for a National Book Award. What - you can't have a heart and a penis? That doesn't make sense. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#alive #award #between #book #called

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#book #caught #changing #characters #fiction

Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#american #answer #books #come #either

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#even #genes #most #possibility #reflect

If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#books #done #everything #five #i

When I go on holiday and people ask me what I do, I tell them I do some internet stuff and I've done a couple of books and I hope they just leave it at that. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#books #couple #done #go #holiday