Gary Gilmore's Quotes

I am finally glad to see that the jury is looking at me.

I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

I've got problems and if you sentence me to additional time, I'm going to compound them.

It's been sanctioned by the courts, and I accept that.

It's my life and my death.

See you in the darkness.

There is an appropriate time to release somebody or to give them a break.

There will always be a father.

You can keep a person locked up too long.

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.

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.

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.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

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

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.

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 birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones we've dealt with who were actually pregnant, anyway.

While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological mother. I liked the idea of the adoption being clear; it was and is not something I am interested in hiding.

I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.