Caroline Leavitt Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.”

“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.”

“L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.”

“My first husband was a serial cheater.”

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

“People love stories. They need stories.”

“The dead can't change, but you can.”

“Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.”

“When self-publishing started, it was mostly people who really couldn't write. And they just wanted to get their book out, and they couldn't get traditional deals.”

“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.”