Jennifer Gilmore
Jennifer Gilmore
Jennifer Gilmoreis an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
two trying roles
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.
ask blank kinds playing
What is it about the blank page that makes me want to hurl myself into a game of solitaire? I ask myself these kinds of questions while I'm playing solitaire.
While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person.
mother baby believe
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.
writing way publishing
Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.
morning coffee promise
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.
adoption want open-adoption
I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.
writing feels therapy
I really don't feel that writing is therapy.
overcoming dread kicks
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.
people might fine
People might seem to have a perfectly fine life but inside, we don't even know if they've suffered.
strong book sometimes
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.
imagination release my-own
History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.
war writing poverty
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.
mother country father
I think we think that parenthood is confined to the country of mothers, but I think a lot of the men I've spoken to and the men who have read my books - I've been surprised by this actually - have a fierce attachment to being parents and to being fathers. And just as we, a lot of women I know, want this, men too want to pass down what they have to pass down.