3 December 2020 Jodi Picoult I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I’m totally obsessed with technology. I’m always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.
3 December 2020 Jodi Picoult I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it’s writing time, I write.
3 December 2020 Jodi Picoult I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.
3 December 2020 Jodi Picoult I have several writer friends, but I don’t involve them in my work process. I’m more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
3 December 2020 Jodi Picoult There’s that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.
3 December 2020 Jodi Picoult 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.
3 December 2020 Jodi Picoult The act of writing… is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that’s the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.
