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
bookstores delight indie love writers
Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious.
fascinates people reinvent sorts
L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.
hit lists might paying publishers second stop
While some of the big publishers might give out 200,000 advances, if your book does not hit some of the lists in the second week, they stop paying attention to you.
believer including incredible mysterious quantum says
I'm a big believer in quantum physics, which says that the universe is more incredible and mysterious than any of us can imagine, which is my way of saying, 'Anything is possible, including angels.'
call deeply goddesses gods writer
I call Algonquin Books 'the gods and goddesses of publishing.' Not only did they give me a career, they care deeply about every writer in their flock.
few professor sold
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!
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.
being-yourself able imagine
Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.
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.