73 Quotes by Caroline Leavitt

Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

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.

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.

I was a bookworm who aced every test – until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.

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.

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.

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!

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.