Jodi Picoult Answers Quotations

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.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question?

We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.

You know, Michael, I used to sit around looking for a way to make sense of what happened, like there was some kind of answer I could find if I just looked hard enough. Then one day I realized that if there had been one, Dave would still be here. And I wondered if this...this feeling that I couldn't figure it all out...was what Dave had been feeling, too.

A duck walks into a bar and the bartender asks, what'll it be? The duck doesn't answer because it's a duck.

If it's us", she whispered, "how come you get to decide?" When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot. They hadn't gotten anywhere at all.

I can get 400 pages down the road and still not know the answer. What I do know is that I have really examined every facet of the situation, and I may not have changed my opinion but I have definitely forced myself to explore why it's my opinion.