21 Caroline Leavitt Quotes for You to Enjoy

Caroline Leavitt

American Novelist

Every First Love Me People You

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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. Caroline Leavitt

Me School Mother Other Cried Took Kids Outcast Somehow More Knew Go Friends Wanted Hebrew Even Each Jewish

Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill. Caroline Leavitt

Writing Really Skill Hard

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody. Caroline Leavitt

Everybody Fabulous Adoption Open Wrong Goes Works

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

Love Think Writer Became Because What If Stop Stories Inability Asking

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. Caroline Leavitt

Best People Lose Think Relationships Our Ourselves Hurl More Lot Selves Forth Themselves Us Help Bring

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 seductive 'come hither' for the story within. Caroline Leavitt

Good First Important All Writers Seductive See Writers Along Come Know Readers First Thing Within How Cover The First Thing Story Title Thing

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. Caroline Leavitt

Myself First Mistakes Lost Few Spell Address Tell Some Could Writers Wrong Over New Name Like Names Look Because Lots Up Get York Often New York Store Titles Them Customers Agonize

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. Caroline Leavitt

The dead can't change, but you can. Caroline Leavitt

You Change Dead

I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. It's like you have this skeleton, and you get to put flesh on it and hair and clothes and really wonderful jewelry. Caroline Leavitt

Love You Jewelry Wonderful Hair Clothes Put Like Because How Discover Get Where Rewriting Story Skeleton Really Flesh

People love stories. They need stories. Caroline Leavitt

Love People Love Stories Stories Need

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

Indifferent Pie Make Am Cook

My first husband was a serial cheater. Caroline Leavitt

Husband First Serial

I always write about the things that haunt me, the questions I have. Caroline Leavitt

Me About Haunt Write Always Questions Things

I call Algonquin Books 'the gods and goddesses of publishing.' Not only did they give me a career, they care deeply about every writer in their flock. Caroline Leavitt

Me Care Every Books About Give Give Me Only Writer Call Goddesses Did Gods Flock Deeply Publishing Career

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. Caroline Leavitt

You Book Big Out Some Give Week Advances Attention Does Hit Stop Lists While Might Your Paying Publishers Second

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