Caroline Leavitt
Caroline Leavitt
Caroline Leavitt is an American novelist. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Is This Tomorrow and Pictures of You, as well as 8 other novels...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
jobs real thinking
There have been years where I've had to take a real job and I wrote during slow times and lunches. I think never forgetting how lucky I am to be able to do something I love has really fueled me.
husband son thinking
I think it's crucial to live, play and work passionately. I'm inspired by my husband, my son and the sense of possibility in the world.
thinking internet twitter-and-facebook
I think the Internet has made things a lot easier. Twitter and Facebook let you really connect to your readers effortlessly!
thinking cities bigs
I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.
thinking identity new-life
Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.
thinking self people
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 forth our best selves.
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Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and race relations, creating scenarios so indelible, you swear they are right outside your door.
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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 to look up the address. I tell myself that lots of writers agonize over titles, and often get them wrong at first.
hebrew kids knew somehow took
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 there all knew each other, and somehow I was even more of an outcast.
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Oh, I've had terrible, terrible relationships! The fact that I ever got happily married to a great, normal man is kind of a miracle.
kids knew wandered
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 were doing.
haunts love rather
I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.
I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books.
few professor sold
I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel a few years later, I sent him a copy!