Caroline Leavitt
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THOMAS KINKADE When you read "The Secret" it tells you "Do not take no one's advice, but read books" Ain't that the... "BETA" METANI' MARASHI I would love to be in 'The Hunger Games.' I'm one of the few people who haven't read... CASSI THOMSON D.H. LAWRENCE Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff i... KATHRYN ERSKINE JOHN GREEN There are so many books I love for different reasons. For superhero stuff, I always go back to Alan ... JEFF LEMIRE I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called ... TAYLOR NEGRON There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I ... JARED PADALECKI STEPHEN KING RAY BRADBURY WALTER MOSLEY GARY SHTEYNGART I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to b... SARA GRUEN TERRY PRATCHETT I had to read it for home school. It is sort of a mystery, and it was so detailed. I like books like... CAROLINE LELAND RICHARD K. MORGAN IRVINE WELSH LAILAH GIFTY AKITA AMY TAN I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it a... ED OXENBOULD MARGARET ATWOOD I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for childre... JEWEL Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow! GABRIELLE DUBOIS I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange. MARK E. SMITH Robin McKinley's 'The Blue Sword' was a defining book of my teen years, and I'd love... CARRIE VAUGHN CINDY SHERMAN If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's... KARA HAYWARD If they read two books then two books will be given to 'First Book,' ELIZABETH MOORE I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to... WATT KEY GARTH NIX DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF NANCY GARDEN I love books. I’m giving some hard copies of the Sacerdos Mysteries book away because I think ther... ELIZABETH AMISU I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a ... DANIEL HANDLER DAVID THEWLIS RAY BRADBURY It should be said upfront that I totally dig people who work in bookstores and libraries. They love ... JAMI ATTENBERG There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', tha... TATIANA DE ROSNAY CASSANDRA CLARE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Paper and leather binding for books are greatly appealing. It's going to be a transitional period. A... DICK BRASS My books should feel like you're getting a peek into a private world: a diary no one was meant t... JEFFREY BROWN RICK RIORDAN It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginab... VAL MCDERMID ROBERT HARRIS KARIN SLAUGHTER WALTER DEAN MYERS If you haven't read 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone', I reckon it's a pretty good p... ADRIAN MCKINTY STANLEY KUBRICK WARREN ELLIS I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my ... SUSAN CHOI My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review&... CARRIE COON ALAFAIR BURKE ABRAHAM LINCOLN STEPHEN KING E-books are preferable to paper; they can be delivered instantly. In many cases, they're cheaper... J. A. KONRATH I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I lik... JOY FIELDING KAREN MARIE MONING TOM PETERS I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tende... RACHEL KUSHNER BERNARD CORNWELL I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more... MALLORY ORTBERG BARBARA HAMBLY CORY DOCTOROW I couldn't enjoy 'A Dance With Dragons,' unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it ... BRYAN COGMAN Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job becaus... AVI ARAD I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover oth... PATRICIA REILLY GIFF ITALO CALVINO People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, ... BARRY LOPEZ DAVE EGGERS NEIL GAIMAN I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that... CECILY VON ZIEGESAR When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people... ROALD DAHL I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice&... BARRY SCHWARTZ I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would l... IAN FRAZIER AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I love to read books that focus on parenting topics because there are so many different ways to do t... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN RICHARD STALLMAN MINDY KALING REGINA BRETT DAVID BERGEN
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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 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 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 MIKE LEAVITT 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 MIKE LEAVITT MIKE LEAVITT MIKE LEAVITT MIKE LEAVITT MIKE LEAVITT 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 MIKE LEAVITT I called it then, but our guys didn't get the signal. They were leaving both of our stingers uncover... JIM LEAVITT 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 MIKE LEAVITT 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. 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MICHAEL LEAVITT 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 MIKE LEAVITT 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 MIKE LEAVITT MIKE LEAVITT MIKE LEAVITT It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised. DAVID LEAVITT 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 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 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. 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I love to read. I have a Kindle, and it's nice to be able to download books that people refer. 
Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, ... 
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I... 
Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read.... 
I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on ... 
There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas... 
There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at... 
'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest boo... 
I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing. 
I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops.... 
We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be v... 
I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewe... 
There are also books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the... 
I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based ... 
I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I... 
I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do ... 
My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 ye... 
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either re... 
It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as suc... 
I love to go the library to borrow books. But I also enjoyed buying books to create my sacred librar... 
I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to ... 
I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'N... 
I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it's something fantastic. They... 
If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good bo... 
I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an ... 
I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's ... 
It is. I mean people probably know it better than me if you have read the books. I mean, I had not r... 
No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always f... 
I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendousl... 
When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but i... 
All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact becaus... 
Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If ... 
I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader.... 
I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take thing... 
I try to read a Kindle Single a week, but I'm getting bad at that. I usually have a few books on... 
I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids... 
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain'... 
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you ... 
I endorse a lot of people - sometimes people say I endorse too many books. And my response has alway... 
So far it's 43 books in 25 years. 
It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that... 
There are people already sharing eBooks out there, ... and they do it simply because they love books... 
Sections in the bookstore
That’s what books do. They are the building blocks, the DNA, if you will, of you. Think of everyth... 
[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a libra... 
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books... 
With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying ... 
As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.... 
Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter&... 
I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of... 
There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve... 
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer. 
What's the probability of (a pandemic) happening again during the next decade? We don't know, but th... 
This is a critical part of the plan, 
Be free, and live life fully. 
I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and... 
We have been friends together,
You can't get any braver than going on national television to be weighed. 
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any... 
There comes a moment when we must choose how we’re going to love someone. Some forms of love leave... 
Silent companions of the lonely hour,
Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it. 
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any... 
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. 
We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, a... 
In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that... 
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love ... 
As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain. 
I think it's important to always keep professional and surround yourself with good people, work ... 
I like ungroomed men. The relaxed look. I don't like fussy guys. Just shower and use deodorant. 