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

~Caroline Leavitt

Topics: Everyone Identity Life New New Life New Place Place Thinks Will

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I had always known that I was Jewish - we celebrated the holidays, we went to a synagogue - but I had never known that I was supposed to feel ashamed about it.

~Caroline Leavitt

Topics: About Always Ashamed Celebrated Feel Had Holidays Jewish Known Never Supposed Synagogue

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

~Caroline Leavitt

Topics: Because Clothes Discover Flesh Get Hair How Jewelry Like Love Put Really Rewriting Skeleton Story Where Wonderful You I Love

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I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more willing to take a chance to read something if it's cheaper - sometimes books on the Kindle are $6. A hardback book is $25. For $25, it better be a really great book. Or you're going to be mad.

~Caroline Leavitt

Topics: Also Better Book Books Buying Chance Cheaper Going Great Great Book Kindle Love Mad More Online Paper People Read Real Really Something Sometimes Take Take A Chance Think Willing You I Think I Love

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I absolutely want and prize and love and revere every single media review I get, but if I got 50 reviews from major newspapers and one review from Amazon, I still would feel a little weird: 'What's going on? Why aren't people responding?'

~Caroline Leavitt

Topics: Absolutely Amazon Every Feel Get Going Got Little Love Major Media Newspapers People Prize Responding Revere Review Reviews Single Still Want Weird Why Would

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Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.

~Caroline Leavitt

Topics: Hard Really Skill Writing

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Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.

~Caroline Leavitt

Topics: Allow Best Connection Desperately Experience Giving Giving Up Hope Humankind Instead Literature Love Ruins Side Struggle Up Us Where

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

~Caroline Leavitt

Topics: Adoption Everybody Fabulous Goes Open Works Wrong

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I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

~Caroline Leavitt

Topics: Asking Became Because Inability Love Stop Stories Think What If Writer I Think

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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!

~Caroline Leavitt

Topics: Copy Few First Had Him Later Make Me Never Novel Professor Sent Sold Who Writing Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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