Caroline Leavitt Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“I had always known that I was Jewish - we celebrated the holidays, we went to a synagogue - but I had never known that I was supposed to feel ashamed about it.”

“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.”

“My dirty little secret is I don't drive at all, though I have my license and I renew it every five years. I'm phobic. I keep worrying if I drive, I'll end up killing someone. I hoped that by writing about a car crash, I might understand and heal this phobia, but I didn't! I'm still phobic.”

“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.”

“I always write about the things that haunt me, the questions I have.”

“I am totally and completely addicted to movies. Jeff, my husband and I, watch movies every night and go out to the movies constantly.”

“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!”

“I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books.”

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