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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.