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 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.

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, I suppose we have to fight that by creating our own versions of safety, which can also turn into ignoring the state of the world.

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 tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations.

Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.

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.

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.