Because Quote by Caroline Leavitt

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

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

“Sometimes, to live your life, you had to protect yourself against what other people might take from you.”

— Caroline Leavitt

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

When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity.

— Caroline Leavitt

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

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

— Caroline Leavitt

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

I am an indifferent cook, but I can make pie.

— Caroline Leavitt

“Never. Ever. Give. Up. No doesn't always mean no. Sometimes it's just takes a little work to find the yes.”

— Caroline Leavitt

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

— Caroline Leavitt

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…

— Caroline Leavitt