All Jennifer Gilmore Quotes
- I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special… Adoption
- As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience. Experience
- History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination. 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. Book
- 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. Day
- I really don't feel that writing is therapy. Feel
- I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great. Adoption
- 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… Already Lost
- Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing. Inspirational
- I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge… Author
- I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing… All
- I think publishing's strength is also its weakness. It's got such a rich and celebrated history as an industry. For the most part, publishing people… Based
- 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… Affects
- I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological mother. I liked… Adoption
- 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… Adoption
- My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food… Affair
- My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my… Allowed
- The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one… Able
- The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be reflected in our own homes,… Chaos
- With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you check the boxes… Adoption