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 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 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.

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'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

Them lady poets must not marry, pal.

I wonder if your mother was frightened by Peter Pan before you were born?

Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd Nor Hell a fury like a woman scorn'd.

In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.

Harry Potter is awesome.

The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.

My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered.

Every character is a baby. You can't choose between them. If you can, you didn't do your job. You have to fall in love with every character.

I feel as good now as I have any other spring training.