Jennifer Gilmore Quotes

I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.

I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.

Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.

I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.

My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.

My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot.

People might seem to have a perfectly fine life but inside, we don't even know if they've suffered.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones weve dealt with who were actually pregnant, anyway.

I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8, the day has already lost a lot of its promise.

The past always sort of haunts us and perhaps inspires us in some ways.

I think that when the world feels safe and secure, we probably feel more that way in our personal lives. What goes on in the world affects us, unequivocally.

I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.