Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don't take no for an answer from anyone - go ahead and prove the naysayers wrong. Believe that anything can be possible. Caroline Leavitt More Quotes by Caroline Leavitt More Quotes From Caroline Leavitt When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity. Caroline Leavitt seeming 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 clear moments needs 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. Caroline Leavitt real jobs thinking I think my stubbornness has served me well. I just knew at an early age what I wanted to do and I was determined to be able to make it happen, no matter how long it took. Caroline Leavitt age long thinking 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 relationship. Maybe you have to experience the terrible ones to appreciate the good unions! Caroline Leavitt good-relationship appreciate writing 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 self people thinking I really want to go into the future 500 years and be a quantum physicist. Not only would I get to see all the incredible inventions I know will be out there, but I'd be able to understand the science behind them! Caroline Leavitt able want years I'm a big believer in quantum physics, which says that the universe is more incredible and mysterious than any of us can imagine, which is my way of saying, 'Anything is possible, including angels.' Caroline Leavitt angels saying universe way I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more willing to take a chance to read something if it's cheaper - sometimes books on the Kindle are $6. A hardback book is $25. For $25, it better be a really great book. Or you're going to be mad. Caroline Leavitt great you love people 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 friends mother school 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. Caroline Leavitt nobody doing know you I absolutely want and prize and love and revere every single media review I get, but if I got 50 reviews from major newspapers and one review from Amazon, I still would feel a little weird: 'What's going on? Why aren't people responding?' Caroline Leavitt weird feel love people Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill. Caroline Leavitt really skill hard writing Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope. Caroline Leavitt best experience hope love I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?' Caroline Leavitt stop think what-if love 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! Caroline Leavitt copy never me writing 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 story good know important 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 mistakes name myself look A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house. Caroline Leavitt better lights you christmas 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 you magic politics world
