Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious. — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
When self-publishing started, it was mostly people who really couldn't write. And they just wanted to get their book out, and they couldn't get traditional deals. — 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
