I'm big on story structure. I studied with John Truby, who mapped out story by means of moral wants and needs, and that's what I do. Hey, so does John Irving. — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I've always had a clear sense that time is short and we need to live as fully as we can in every moment. — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, to live your life, you had to protect yourself against what other people might take from you.” — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one,… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity. — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took me, the… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters. — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I have to admit that many of the relationships I write about are destructive, but that's the yin to the yang of a good… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
“Never. Ever. Give. Up. No doesn't always mean no. Sometimes it's just takes a little work to find the yes.” — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. Its like you have this skeleton, and you get to put… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?' — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
While some of the big publishers might give out 200,000 advances, if your book does not hit some of the lists in the second… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
A haunting, harrowing punch to the heart, Among the Missing is flat-out brilliant. About the secrets we keep, the lives we are desperate to… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love,… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
