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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness.

Some people will tell you werewolves can only shapechange under a full moon, but people also say there's no such things as ghosts.

Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us - Della

I don't take anything too seriously. If I do, I realize pretty quickly that's why I'm uncomfortable.

We are a sensational team.

Our lives are but our marches to the grave.

What we do right now, today, matters.

I think that you will see some significant changes in the [Donald] Trump administration.

Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

I don't watch anything. I work so much. If I see a film, it's usually that I'll go in after working 15 hours and slam in The Bridge on the River Kwai or something.