I just love that feeling of being in another world, of creating characters and watching where they go. — Caroline Leavitt Another world Copy Share Image
Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in,… — Caroline Leavitt About Copy Share Image
By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the… — Caroline Leavitt By the time Copy Share Image
L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me. — Caroline Leavitt Come Copy Share Image
If a kid disappears, now there's Amber Alerts: they know this-this-this. In the '50s, we kids wandered around. Nobody knew what you… — Caroline Leavitt Amber 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… — Caroline Leavitt Address Copy Share Image
Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody. — Caroline Leavitt Adoption Copy Share Image
I always write about the things that haunt me, the questions I have. — Caroline Leavitt About Copy Share Image
My dirty little secret is I don't drive at all, though I have my license and I renew it every five years.… — Caroline Leavitt About 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… — Caroline Leavitt Book Copy Share Image
Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and… — Caroline Leavitt Boston Copy Share Image
Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without. — Caroline Leavitt Able Copy Share Image
Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don't take no for an answer from anyone - go ahead and prove… — Caroline Leavitt Answers Copy Share Image
I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus… — Caroline Leavitt About Copy Share Image
I had always known that I was Jewish - we celebrated the holidays, we went to a synagogue - but I had… — Caroline Leavitt About Copy Share Image
I am totally and completely addicted to movies. Jeff, my husband and I, watch movies every night and go out to the… — Caroline Leavitt Addicted Copy Share Image
Oh, I've had terrible, terrible relationships! The fact that I ever got happily married to a great, normal man is kind of… — Caroline Leavitt Ever Copy Share Image
I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel… — Caroline Leavitt Books Copy Share Image
There have been years where I've had to take a real job and I wrote during slow times and lunches. I think… — Caroline Leavitt Able Copy Share Image
A product name has to be specific. You know that Tasty Soup is tasty - that Hot Chips will burn off the… — Caroline Leavitt Burn Copy Share Image
I'm big on story structure. I studied with John Truby, who mapped out story by means of moral wants and needs, and… — Caroline Leavitt Big Copy Share Image
