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 week, they stop paying attention to you. — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I tell myself that some names can be mistakes, like Mxyplyzyk, a store in New York that lost customers because few could spell its name to look up the address. I tell myself that lots of writers agonize over titles,… — 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
