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 needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.

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.

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

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 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 really don't feel that writing is therapy.