Caroline Leavitt Quotes

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• I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.
• Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.
• Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.
• Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection…
• L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.
• A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring…
• 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…
• A product name has to be specific. You know that Tasty Soup is tasty - that Hot Chips will burn off the roof of your…
• By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Jewish family…
• I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.
• I had always known that I was Jewish - we celebrated the holidays, we went to a synagogue - but I had never known that…
• I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took me, the kids…
• Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.
• People love stories. They need stories.
• I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books.
• I am an indifferent cook, but I can make pie.
• I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with…
• My first husband was a serial cheater.
• I always write about the things that haunt me, the questions I have.
• I am totally and completely addicted to movies. Jeff, my husband and I, watch movies every night and go out to the movies constantly.

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