I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in regard to our children.
If a book has a predictable storyline or familiar situations, there's little satisfaction for me in writing it. A woman deciding which man she'll spe… - Jillian Medoff
If a book has a predictable storyline or familiar situations, there's little satisfaction for me in writing it. A woman deciding which man she'll spe…
- Jillian Medoff
As a writer who happens to be a woman, I am constantly devalued - even by other writers who happen to be women - simply because of a marketing decisi… - Jillian Medoff
As a writer who happens to be a woman, I am constantly devalued - even by other writers who happen to be women - simply because of a marketing decisi…
My entire life has been centered around my writing, and by that I mean finding the time to write. - Jillian Medoff
My entire life has been centered around my writing, and by that I mean finding the time to write.
I hope I'll keep people up at night, unable to stop turning pages. That's my goal: exhausted, emotionally drained readers who can't stop crying. - Jillian Medoff
I hope I'll keep people up at night, unable to stop turning pages. That's my goal: exhausted, emotionally drained readers who can't stop crying.
To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenc… - Jillian Medoff
To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenc…
Part of what compels me to write day after day, chapter after chapter, is the discovery process, seeing the characters evolve as I get deeper and dee… - Jillian Medoff
Part of what compels me to write day after day, chapter after chapter, is the discovery process, seeing the characters evolve as I get deeper and dee…
What I like to do and what I have to do are two separate things. I like to read, swim, watch TV, spend time with my family. But I have to work, so I … - Jillian Medoff
What I like to do and what I have to do are two separate things. I like to read, swim, watch TV, spend time with my family. But I have to work, so I …
Sometimes you have to say, 'Today's just not my day. - Jillian Medoff
Sometimes you have to say, 'Today's just not my day.
There's constant drama, and I'm busy, busy, but at the center of the madness is the desire to write, the need to write. That desire, that need, is as… - Jillian Medoff
There's constant drama, and I'm busy, busy, but at the center of the madness is the desire to write, the need to write. That desire, that need, is as…
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