"I couldn't really experience being an author when……" — Jennifer Gilmore
"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 doesn't translate between the two roles."
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20 Quotes by Jennifer Gilmore
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I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you…
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As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.
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History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.
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I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come…
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I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that…
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I really don't feel that writing is therapy.
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I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.
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I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8,…
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Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do…
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I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry…
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I think publishing's strength is also its weakness. It's got such a rich and celebrated history as an industry. For…
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I think that when the world feels safe and secure, we probably feel more that way in our personal lives.…
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The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
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