73 Quotes by Caroline Leavitt

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 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.

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.

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

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.