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 seem to have a perfectly fine life but inside, we don't even know if they've suffered.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

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

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.

Idea of the generations continuing is really important. And that's interesting to me. I write about families; I'm interested in families. Even though I think a family can be just two people or two people and a dog, I really wanted children for that reason.

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.