Caroline Leavitt
Caroline Leavitt
Caroline Leavitt is an American novelist. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Is This Tomorrow and Pictures of You, as well as 8 other novels...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
haunts love rather
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.
kids knew wandered
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.
great happily man normal terrible
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.
writing
I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.
writing appreciate good-relationship
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!
years want able
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!
needs moments clear
I've always had a clear sense that time is short and we need to live as fully as we can in every moment.
husband son thinking
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.
character people use
Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.
being-yourself able imagine
Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.
husband cheater firsts
My first husband was a serial cheater.
husband hard-work night
Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.
names hot mouths
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.
seeming
When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity.