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
I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
All writers know how important a good title is. It's the first thing readers see, along with a knock-your-socks-off cover - a… — 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… — 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… — Caroline Leavitt Albeit 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 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… — Caroline Leavitt Book 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 Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in quantum physics, which says that the universe is more incredible and mysterious than any of us can… — Caroline Leavitt Angel 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… — Caroline Leavitt 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 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
I had always known that I was Jewish - we celebrated the holidays, we went to a synagogue - but I had… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I think my stubbornness has served me well. I just knew at an early age what I wanted to do and I… — 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… — 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… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I really want to go into the future 500 years and be a quantum physicist. Not only would I get to see… — Caroline Leavitt 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 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
