15 Quotes by 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 do that.

To be perfectly frank: I don’t write women’s fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into the women’s fiction category.

I’ve always been a writer who tackles complex themes and risky subjects – I write about the things that people think but never say aloud.

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 deeper into the story.

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 decision. Am I truly less talented, less audacious, less erudite, less brave than my more quote-unquote literary colleagues?

My entire life has been centered around my writing, and by that I mean finding the time to write.