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Caroline Leavitt

Caroline Leavitt Books

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Caroline Leavitt is an American novelist known for her poignant emotional descriptions and profound social insights. Her works often focus on themes of family, love, and identity, and are highly appreciated by readers.

Girls in Trouble: A Novel

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“Gary'nin hatırlayabildiği kadarıyla Gerta,ilk defa bu kadar hassas görünüyordu.Kirpikleri titriyor,ağzı bir köşeye doğru seyiriyordu.'Mükemmel bir iş çıkarıyorsun.Otis seni çok seviyor.”

Author:Caroline Leavitt

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

Adoption Fabulous Open Adoption

Author:Caroline Leavitt

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

Jesus Teacher Tests Thirds Pops Grades Apostles Third Grade Quiz Bookworms

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“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.”

Firsts Heart Left Behinds Boys Broken Nervous Strings Typical First Love Breakdown Charismatic Bad Boy Nervous Breakdown

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“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.”

Knows Names Products Mouths Hot Roof Soup Chips Tasty

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.”

Thinking Identity New Life New Places Jumpstart

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. Its like you have this skeleton, and you get to put flesh on it and hair and clothes and really wonderful jewelry.”

Stories Wonderful Like You Hair Clothes Flesh Jewelry Skeletons Rewriting

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.”

Hard Shows Night Hard Work Husband Meals Every Night Stopping Housewife

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“I am an indifferent cook but I can make pie.”

I Can Cooks Indifferent Pie

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“My first husband was a serial cheater.”

Firsts Husband Serials Cheater

Author:Caroline Leavitt

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

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“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.”

Years Heart Book Chance Secret Missing My Favorite Brilliant Psychological Desperate Flats Haunting Favorite Book

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“People love stories. They need stories.”

People Needs Stories Love Story

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“I just love that feeling of being in another world, of creating characters and watching where they go.”

World Character Feelings Creating Another World Creating Characters

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“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.”

People Thinking Self Helping Loses Best Self Best Relationship

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“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!”

Writing Terrible Appreciate Unions Destructive Good Relationship Yang

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“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.”

Thinking Wells Long Matter Happens Age Able Wanted Determined Make It Happen Stubbornness

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“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.”

Thinking Years Has Beens Real Able Jobs Forget Lucky Never Forget Lunch Real Jobs

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“I've always had a clear sense that time is short and we need to live as fully as we can in every moment.”

Needs Moments Clear

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity.”

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“I think it's crucial to live, play and work passionately. I'm inspired by my husband, my son and the sense of possibility in the world.”

Thinking World Play Possibility Son Husband Inspired My Husband My Son Crucial

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“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!”

People Way Kind Used Roles Reader Unlikely Introspective Pajamas

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“I think the Internet has made things a lot easier. Twitter and Facebook let you really connect to your readers effortlessly!”

Thinking Made Reader Internet Easier Twitter And Facebook

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.”

Thinking Bigs Cities Including Anything Is Possible Big Cities Reinventing Reinventing Yourself

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“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.”

Believe Answers Risk Prove What You Love Naysayers

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“I really want to go into the future 500 years and be a quantum physicist. Not only would I get to see all the incredible inventions I know will be out there, but I'd be able to understand the science behind them!”

Knows Want Years Able Behinds Incredibles Invention Quantum Physicist

Author:Caroline Leavitt

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

Able Imagine Being Yourself

Book:Girls in Trouble: A Novel

Source: Girls in Trouble: A Novel

“I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.”

Author:Caroline Leavitt

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

People Character Use Details Fictional Character Magpies

Author:Caroline Leavitt

About the Author

Born: January 9, 1952
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 29

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