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

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

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

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 to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.

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 world affects us, unequivocally.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Don’t go, ” said Cedric. “Murder has made you practically one of the family.

Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.

I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar.

To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.

Whenever I took a step forward, it seemed as though life was pushing me five steps back.

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

Planning is bringing the future into the present.

I rented a car. I didn't really need one, I just wanted to make one less available. I wanted one businessman on the bus with no car.