Idea of the generations continuing is really important. And that's interesting to me. I write about families; I'm interested in families. Even… — Jennifer Gilmore About family Copy Share Image
People might seem to have a perfectly fine life but inside, we don't even know if they've suffered. — Jennifer Gilmore Fine Copy Share Image
I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers. — Jennifer Gilmore Feels Copy Share Image
While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person. — Jennifer Gilmore Am Copy Share Image
I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great. — Jennifer Gilmore Adoption Copy Share Image
Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing. — Jennifer Gilmore Publishing Copy Share Image
I think we think that parenthood is confined to the country of mothers, but I think a lot of the men I've… — Jennifer Gilmore Attachment Copy Share Image
My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me… — Jennifer Gilmore Books Copy Share Image
It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it… — Jennifer Gilmore Adoption Copy Share Image
The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones weve dealt with who were… — Jennifer Gilmore Baby Copy Share Image
What is it about the blank page that makes me want to hurl myself into a game of solitaire? I ask myself… — Jennifer Gilmore About Copy Share Image
With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you… — Jennifer Gilmore Adoption Copy Share Image
I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal… — Jennifer Gilmore Adoption Copy Share Image
The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones we've dealt with who were… — Jennifer Gilmore Actually Copy Share Image
The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has… — Jennifer Gilmore Able Copy Share Image
I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological… — Jennifer Gilmore Adoption Copy Share Image
History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination. — Jennifer Gilmore Creativity Copy Share Image
“I had the worst feeling, when I hung up, that I had missed the purpose of our conversation, that we both had.… — Jennifer Gilmore Communication Copy Share Image
I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It… — Jennifer Gilmore Behind the scenes Copy Share Image
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience. — Jennifer Gilmore Needs Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of… — Jennifer Gilmore Book Copy Share Image
I think that when the world feels safe and secure, we probably feel more that way in our personal lives. What goes… — Jennifer Gilmore Feels Copy Share Image
The past always sort of haunts us and perhaps inspires us in some ways. — Jennifer Gilmore Inspire Copy Share Image
I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8, the day… — Jennifer Gilmore Coffee Copy Share Image
