Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life. 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 clearmomentsneeds 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 realjobsthinking 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 agelongthinking 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-relationshipappreciatewriting 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 selfpeoplethinking 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 ablewantyears 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 angelssayinguniverseway 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 greatyoulovepeople 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 mefriendsmotherschool 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 nobodydoingknowyou 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 weirdfeellovepeople Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill. Caroline Leavitt reallyskillhardwriting 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 bestexperiencehopelove I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?' Caroline Leavitt stopthinkwhat-iflove 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 copynevermewriting 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 storygoodknowimportant 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 mistakesnamemyselflook 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 betterlightsyouchristmas 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 youmagicpoliticsworld
