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 More Quotes by Caroline Leavitt More Quotes From Caroline Leavitt Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters. Caroline Leavitt use character people Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life. Caroline Leavitt new-life identity thinking A haunting, harrowing punch to the heart, Among the Missing is flat-out brilliant. About the secrets we keep, the lives we are desperate to live, and the chances we miss, it's a psychological dazzler. Truly, one of my favorite books of this year-or any year. Caroline Leavitt heart book years I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself. Caroline Leavitt bigs cities thinking L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me. Caroline Leavitt reason people My first husband was a serial cheater. Caroline Leavitt cheater husband firsts I am an indifferent cook but I can make pie. Caroline Leavitt indifferent cooks pie I just love that feeling of being in another world, of creating characters and watching where they go. Caroline Leavitt creating feelings character Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands. Caroline Leavitt husband hard-work night I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. Its like you have this skeleton, and you get to put flesh on it and hair and clothes and really wonderful jewelry. Caroline Leavitt skeletons clothes hair Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without. Caroline Leavitt being-yourself imagine able 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 risk answers believe A product name has to be specific. You know that Tasty Soup is tasty - that Hot Chips will burn off the roof of your mouth. Caroline Leavitt mouths names hot I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him. Caroline Leavitt first-love heart boys I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles. Caroline Leavitt tests teacher jesus I think the Internet has made things a lot easier. Twitter and Facebook let you really connect to your readers effortlessly! Caroline Leavitt easier internet thinking Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody. Caroline Leavitt open-adoption fabulous adoption I write about the things that haunt or obsess me. Caroline Leavitt writing People love stories. They need stories. Caroline Leavitt stories people needs E-readers are changing the way we read, and the author is now required to get out there and be a kind of showman, an unlikely role for introspective people used to working in their pajamas! Caroline Leavitt roles people way
