Jennifer Gilmore Quotes

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.

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 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 really don't feel that writing is therapy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sometimes you stop seeing what the person is to the world. You only see what the person is to you.

While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person.

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.

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