Jenna Blum

Life is so often unfair and painful and love is hard to find and you have to take it whenever and wherever…

— Jenna Blum

When I was reading 'The Underground Railroad,' I had to actually hold my hand over the right-hand page so I wouldn't see,…

— Jenna Blum

The success of 'Those Who Save Us' had an interesting effect on the writing of 'The Stormchasers.'

— Jenna Blum

Procrastination: as endemic to and dreaded by writers as writers' block.

— Jenna Blum

I have a brother I love dearly, although we're not twins! I'm ten years older than he is, so I sometimes feel…

— Jenna Blum

I started writing when I was 4.

— Jenna Blum

“The past is past. And better it remain so.”

— Jenna Blum

“Thomas cracks his joints on the steering wheel. It’s all right. I mean, it’s not, but of course you wouldn’t know. It’s…

— Jenna Blum

Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off...

— Jenna Blum

How could she tell him that we come to love those who save us?

— Jenna Blum

All I'd ever wanted to do in my life was write and publish books, and woe to anyone who stood in my…

— Jenna Blum

Make a list of activities that keep you tethered to your creative world, and put it where you can see it every…

— Jenna Blum

I was a hostess, a waitress, a cafe manager, and a prep chef. For one job, I had to wear a hat…

— Jenna Blum

Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a…

— Jenna Blum

“So you see, he says softly, we are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by…

— Jenna Blum

“For one of the odd things about death, Trudy has discovered, is that in its wake one must go about business as…

— Jenna Blum

“From this vantage point in the summer, the countryside below is a dreaming checkerboard over which it seems that one could, with…

— Jenna Blum

She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna…

— Jenna Blum

I have to read once a day, or I become cranky.

— Jenna Blum

I was married when I was in my early twenties, and my former husband, an absolutely lovely man, didn't get the writing…

— Jenna Blum

As a white, female, half-Jewish writer, when I read 'The Underground Railroad,' it reminded me that America isn't just the sort of…

— Jenna Blum

We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?

— Jenna Blum

“However, the knowledge that her misery has company is little comfort, and this jubilant springtime display is not to be trusted. Life…

— Jenna Blum

Unlike writing a book, which can take several years, baking is instant gratification.

— Jenna Blum

“A bereavement club. You don’t choose to join it; it’s thrust upon you. And the members whose lives have been changed have…

— Jenna Blum