American - Novelist | 1970 -
I really don't feel that writing is therapy.
Jennifer Gilmore
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History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.
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I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing a novel the first time around, while working behind the scenes, knowing all that has to happen to make a book a success and to still make the leap as an author.
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I think publishing's strength is also its weakness. It's got such a rich and celebrated history as an industry. For the most part, publishing people are incredibly creative, business is done based on the strength of relationships, and the product being peddled is books.
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Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.
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