Caroline Leavitt quote: "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?'"

Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

I tell myself that some names can be mistakes, like Mxyplyzyk, a store in New York that lost custome...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

If a kid disappears, now there's Amber Alerts: they know this-this-this. In the '50s, we kid...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a c...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more will...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Je...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. It's like you have this s...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

I call Algonquin Books 'the gods and goddesses of publishing.' Not only did they give me a c...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world ...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relation...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

I'm big on story structure. I studied with John Truby, who mapped out story by means of moral wa...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can'...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz abou...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

I'm a big believer in quantum physics, which says that the universe is more incredible and myste...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fasc...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first n...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

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

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

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

I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my moth...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

A product name has to be specific. You know that Tasty Soup is tasty - that Hot Chips will burn off ...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

All writers know how important a good title is. It's the first thing readers see, along with a k...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What i...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we str...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

I had always known that I was Jewish - we celebrated the holidays, we went to a synagogue - but I ha...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the C...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve...
MIKE LEAVITT

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
THEODORE LEAVITT

I would be lying if I said I didn't get a kick out of the assignment. Here I am, a "troubled youth,"...
LINDSEY LEAVITT

He is probably physically incapable of doing the sort of thing they are suggesting he was doing. It ...
JAMES LEAVITT

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
DAVID LEAVITT

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true...
DAVID LEAVITT

What's the probability of (a pandemic) happening again during the next decade? We don't know, but th...
MIKE LEAVITT

We did take a step forward in the process, ... Sometimes action isn't always yes and no. Sometimes i...
MIKE LEAVITT

A pandemic is unique among disasters. It could happen in 5,000 different communities around the worl...
MIKE LEAVITT

We need everyone in America to be able to have a vaccine that will protect them and their children a...
MIKE LEAVITT

[Scientists believe bird flu] will migrate or mutate slowly toward the type of flu that can be trans...
MIKE LEAVITT

This is a critical part of the plan,
MIKE LEAVITT

The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
DAVID LEAVITT

We're an additional $50,000 over budget even before we start,
DAVID LEAVITT

All Americans deserve clean water to drink and safe places to swim and fish.
CHRISTY LEAVITT

No one should go without their medication. If you are a Medicare beneficiary, do not leave the pharm...
MIKE LEAVITT

I called it then, but our guys didn't get the signal. They were leaving both of our stingers uncover...
JIM LEAVITT

We need to be moving boldly in redeveloping this (influenza vaccine) industry,
MIKE LEAVITT

For one reason or another, this program has never had a national publication.
DAVID LEAVITT

I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.
DAVID LEAVITT

Susie: Doesn't it make you feel kind of awesome that the world is beautiful for no other apparent re...
MARTINE LEAVITT

We recommend that people call their physicians before they go, and be persistent and patient. It's i...
MIKE LEAVITT

There are too many Americans that are without basic health insurance. And those that do have it are ...
MIKE LEAVITT

South Dakota is doing better than some other states, but still, with 44 percent of the major facilit...
CHRISTY LEAVITT

We are gravely concerned about the potential for cholera, typhoid and dehydrating diseases that coul...
MICHAEL LEAVITT

There's little question in my mind that we will at some point see a wild bird [with H5N1] enter our ...
MICHAEL LEAVITT

The market will become simplified because consumers want that.
MICHAEL LEAVITT

Clearly Part D is the bright spot.
MICHAEL LEAVITT

All of the infectious diseases that occur when people are in large congregations of people can sprea...
MICHAEL LEAVITT

I think it should be universally understood that it can't be fixed overnight.
MICHAEL LEAVITT

It seems fairly clear to me that had the sewage spill not occurred, he'd still be alive.
JIM LEAVITT

It's clear to me that this has been sickeningly difficult, and profoundly tragic circumstance,
MICHAEL LEAVITT

Having more manufacturers of influenza vaccine licensed in the U.S., and having more vaccine dosages...
MIKE LEAVITT

There may some who say they cried ‘wolf,’ but I would like to say that this is about long-term p...
MICHAEL LEAVITT

[She was] a copy editor, possessed of the rare capacity to sit all day in a small cubicle, like a mo...
DAVID LEAVITT

It's clear to me that this has been sickeningly difficult and profoundly tragic,
MICHAEL LEAVITT

We need a vaccine,
MICHAEL LEAVITT

in a powerful, compassionate and competent way.
MICHAEL LEAVITT

We are...erecting a network of up to 40 medical shelters,
MIKE LEAVITT

I understand what happened, and I understand the position the FBI took based upon the information th...
WILLIAM LEAVITT

Where this citizen made an arrest and he (Hoffman) supposedly damaged trees, there would be absolute...
JAMES LEAVITT

Because we know that liability is an issue that keeps companies away from making vaccines, we need t...
MICHAEL LEAVITT

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping...
DAVID LEAVITT

[Kennedy asked about reports that the administration planned deep cuts in Medicaid and Medicare and]...
MIKE LEAVITT

It would be my assessment that no nation is adequately prepared for a pandemic avian flu. (However) ...
MIKE LEAVITT

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball...
DAVID LEAVITT

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figu...
DAVID LEAVITT

Everything they've said is tainted now. Every day was a lie.
LINDSEY LEAVITT

He said focus. The word focus. I hear angels singing. Everything goes dark except for a light that b...
LINDSEY LEAVITT

Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is e...
DAVID LEAVITT

is based on the best available science instead of ideology.
MIKE LEAVITT

That particular virus and the one we're seeing now can be a vicious killer.
MIKE LEAVITT

The problem with a pandemic is, anything you say before it sounds alarmist. There is a dilemma here....
MIKE LEAVITT

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
DAVID LEAVITT

The public, ... has not until recently found this to be a compelling issue.
MIKE LEAVITT

My mother makes up for all shortcomings because she birthed Ginnie. I might not have loads of friend...
LINDSEY LEAVITT

How thin the air felt at the forest's edge, how ghostly the trees that guarded their realm.... The w...
MARTINE LEAVITT

The family wants to have an understanding of what happened. And then they want to see that if somebo...
JAMES LEAVITT

You may have a civil action against a developer, but you never have the right to go in the middle of...
JAMES LEAVITT

He holds no hard feelings. A lot of times the truth is stranger than fiction. This is an unusual cas...
JAMES LEAVITT

I suspect the district attorney's office is investigating to see whether or not there is enough evid...
JAMES LEAVITT

So far the kids have loved it. I think it?s going to be huge. It?s the first park school to open in ...
JENNIFER LEAVITT

It?s a great place to go after a long day of skiing.
JENNIFER LEAVITT

Tonight I don't know what he was. I haven't seen Kyle wrestle like that in two years. Hopefully, we ...
ROB LEAVITT

Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath and life w...
MARTINE LEAVITT

Be free, and live life fully.
CAROLINE SHAW

I'm obsessed with frozen yogurt because you don't feel totally guilty eating it. It's no...
CAROLINE SUNSHINE

Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as a...
CAROLINE CORR

I love a good steak. I like my meat. I love broccoli - it's one of my favorites - and corn, too....
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI

I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and...
CAROLINE KNAPP

I am just this small-town Canberra girl that's taken riding a little kid's bike on dirt trac...
CAROLINE BUCHANAN

Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton...
CAROLINE LAWRENCE

For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once ...
CAROLINE LEJEUNE

We have been friends together,
In sunshine and in shade;
Since first beneath the chestnut-tree...
CAROLINE NORTON

You can't get any braver than going on national television to be weighed.
CAROLINE RHEA

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.
CAROLINE SCHOEDER

A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.
CAROLINE MYTINGER

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any...
CAROLINE GORDON

The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something...
CAROLINE KNAPP

There comes a moment when we must choose how we’re going to love someone. Some forms of love leave...
CAROLINE GEORGE

Silent companions of the lonely hour,
Friends, who can never alter or forsake,
Who for inconst...
CAROLINE NORTON

In the cold change which time hath wrought on love
(The snowy winter of his summer prime),
Sho...
CAROLINE NORTON

Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.
CAROLINE BIRD

My beautiful, my beautiful! That standest meekly by, with thy proudly-arched and glossy neck, and da...
CAROLINE NORTON

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any...
CAROLINE GORDON

When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
CAROLINE RHEA

There is a particular whir of agitation about female hunger, a low-level thrumming of shoulds and sh...
CAROLINE KNAPP

We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, a...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to ful...
CAROLINE KNAPP

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loade...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lo...
CAROLINE KNAPP

These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whi...
CAROLINE KNAPP

On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alon...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up s...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, i...
CAROLINE KNAPP

I go to a restaurant with a group of women and pray that we can order lunch without falling into the...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variation...
CAROLINE KNAPP

When you study a dog you love, you find beauty in every small detail, and so it is with Lucille: I h...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text...
CAROLINE KNAPP

The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the ...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frost...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, t...
CAROLINE KNAPP

My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a ...
CAROLINE KNAPP

You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, &#...
CAROLINE KNAPP

I eat breakfast pretty much 'round the clock - muffins in the morning, scones for lunch, cereal ...
CAROLINE KNAPP

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.
CAROLINE KNAPP

What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and wha...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I di...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has ...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love ...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always re...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.
CAROLINE KENNEDY

When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
CAROLINE KENNEDY

I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sens...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

Change isn't easy, it takes time.
CAROLINE KENNEDY

You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little b...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that ...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and la...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut i...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public ser...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I fel...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sens...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not ...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
CAROLINE KENNEDY

When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.
CAROLINE KENNEDY

It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look ba...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great ...
CAROLINE SHAW

How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.
CAROLINE STEVERMER

Oh Beck, I love reading your e-mail. Learning your life. And I am careful; I always mark new message...
CAROLINE KEPNES

I have a very close relationship with my parents.
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI

I truly believe that it's all of the hard times that make you step up to the next level, and tha...
CAROLINE BUCHANAN

As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.
CAROLINE RHEA

I love The Cheesecake Factory, especially the chicken marsala. I almost always pick that dish; it ta...
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount o...
CAROLINE KNAPP

The problem with books is that they end.
CAROLINE KEPNES

Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just n...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intrica...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my...
CAROLINE KNAPP

I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge ...
CAROLINE SHAW

I think it's important to always keep professional and surround yourself with good people, work ...
CAROLINE WINBERG

I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley.
CAROLINE LAWRENCE

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got t...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judici...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.
CAROLINE MYSS

Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitul...
CAROLINE KNAPP

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.
CAROLINE LAWRENCE

I try to lead a pretty active lifestyle. My biggest hobby is traveling with my family. I love to tra...
CAROLINE SUNSHINE

Everybody knows, nobody's talking - from LIE --debut novel coming September 1st from St. Martin's Pr...
CAROLINE BOCK

Of course, the problem with self-transformation is that after a while, you don't know which version ...
CAROLINE KNAPP

I really didn't even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on...
CAROLINE CORR

We do not judge great art. It judges us.
CAROLINE GORDON

I would love to work with Johnny Depp. I really admire him as an actor, and personally, in my opinio...
CAROLINE SUNSHINE

It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that...
CAROLINE DHAVERNAS

I like ungroomed men. The relaxed look. I don't like fussy guys. Just shower and use deodorant.
CAROLINE WINBERG

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.
CAROLINE CORR

Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are.
CAROLINE CORR

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beg...
CAROLINE CORR

We're lucky to have the family connection. We're close and close musically as well.
CAROLINE CORR

What operators should be doing ?- and what the standards bodies working in this area are encouraging...
CAROLINE CHAPPELL

The next shift is to an object-oriented form of distributed application that is Web-enabled and peer...
CAROLINE CHAPPELL

Until recently, the SDP has been very much a mobile network initiative, and most SDP suppliers have ...
CAROLINE CHAPPELL

The nature of the telecom service business is changing -- services are becoming more numerous, varie...
CAROLINE CHAPPELL

This finding adds to the mounting evidence that the longer a mother breastfeeds her infant, the grea...
CAROLINE CHANTRY

We found that babies who received an additional two months of full breastfeeding were over four time...
CAROLINE CHANTRY

It may become burdensome to pump regularly even if a woman has an accommodating employer.
CAROLINE CHANTRY

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?'

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Caroline Leavitt

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

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