Martine Leavitt quote: "Susie: Doesn't it make you feel kind of awesome that the world is beautiful for no other apparent reason than that it is? Like beauty has its own secret reason. It doesn't need human eyes to notice. It just wants to be glorious and unbelievable."

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

There are times when I'm so bored with being healthy and organic that I crave sugar and additive...
MARTINE MCCUTCHEON

I can't dance on ice, because I'm like Bambi on ice.
MARTINE MCCUTCHEON

I look very different on camera compared with how I do in real life. On camera, I look my best when ...
MARTINE MCCUTCHEON

Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. M...
MARTINE VERMEULEN

Eating lighter makes you lighter. No one can wave a magic wand.
MARTINE MCCUTCHEON

It's sad that people can't control their speed and take responsibility for their actions. To me, to ...
BETTIE MARTINE

It's such a devastating [incident] you really don't know where to start. You can see the car from th...
BETTIE MARTINE

The Cocoa-Nut Tree at Covent Garden? Why it's the finest confectioner in the capital and sells bonbo...
MARTINE BAILEY

If anyone had been downstairs, it could have been very serious because they actually pushed that wal...
BETTIE MARTINE

I wanted to try dainty Italian fare, and bought spicy Bologna sausage, pink papery hams, hard white ...
MARTINE BAILEY

So on Christmas morning I was up at five o'clock, making the fire as bright as a furnace, baking min...
MARTINE BAILEY

Once inside the confectioners, she was spellbound by sugared fruits hung in garlands and glass bottl...
MARTINE BAILEY

It was almost Christmas, and Renzo was preparing all the delicacies Florentines must eat at the fest...
MARTINE BAILEY

Signor Renzo's lodge stood on a grassy knoll near the crest of the hill. It was a modest place, just...
MARTINE BAILEY

Around me shone the kitchen I'd worked in each day: the copper pans hung neatly, the scratched woode...
MARTINE BAILEY

When did you trust someone to hold a truth as carefully as you did?
MARTINE MURRAY

I eat foods such as fish, chicken, fruit and vegetables while avoiding red meat, dairy and wheat.
MARTINE MCCUTCHEON

I think it takes time to find your natural style and learn not to be swayed by trends that might not...
MARTINE MCCUTCHEON

That baking day was the third day Mrs G had shut herself away in the stillroom, dosing herself with ...
MARTINE BAILEY

Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community...
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 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 would be lying if I said I didn't get a kick out of the assignment. Here I am, a "troubled youth,"...
LINDSEY 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 absolutely want and prize and love and revere every single media review I get, but if I got 50 rev...
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

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

Susie: Doesn't it make you feel kind of awesome that the world is beautiful for no other apparent reason than that it is? Like beauty has its own secret reason. It doesn't need human eyes to notice. It just wants to be glorious and unbelievable.

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Susie: Doesn't it make you feel kind of awesome that the world is beautiful for no other apparent reason than that it is? Like beauty has its own secret reason. It doesn't need human eyes to notice. It just wants to be glorious and unbelievable.

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