Caroline Leavitt is an American novelist. She is the New York Times bestselling author[citation needed] of Is This Tomorrow and Pictures of You, as well as 8 other novels.
I am an indifferent cook, but I can make pie.
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!
I just love that feeling of being in another world, of creating characters and watching where they go.
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.
Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.
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.
I've always had a clear sense that time is short and we need to live as fully as we can in every moment.
I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.
Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.
Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.
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.
Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.
I think my stubbornness has served me well. I just knew at an early age what I wanted to do and I was determined to be able to make it happen, no matter how long it took.
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 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!
People love stories. They need stories.
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.
I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.
My first husband was a serial cheater.
L. A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.