"While some of the big publishers might give……" — 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 week, they stop paying attention to you."
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23 Quotes by Caroline Leavitt
Caroline Leavitt has 23 quotes on this site.
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I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.
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Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.
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Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.
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Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in…
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L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.
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A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to…
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I tell myself that some names can be mistakes, like Mxyplyzyk, a store in New York that lost customers because…
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A product name has to be specific. You know that Tasty Soup is tasty - that Hot Chips will burn…
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By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part…
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I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz…
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I had always known that I was Jewish - we celebrated the holidays, we went to a synagogue - but…
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I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my…
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The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and…
— Annie Besant
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Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in…
— Christopher Bond
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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse…
— Julie Burchill
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The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift…
— Noam Chomsky
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Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.
— Deepak Chopra
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Hail to the chief in triumph advances.
— Walter Scott
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I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind…
— Wernher von Braun
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
— Carl Sagan
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The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country…
— Sun Tzu
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As God's child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord's time is as important as the Lord's will. Do…
— Watchman Nee
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