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Caroline Leavitt Quotes

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.

Caroline Leavitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american

Topics

Love Community Walk Feel You Where

I never noticed my voice. I did become aware as a little kid at camp that I liked doing accents. We'd do plays and skits, and I realized I loved speaking in voices that weren't my own.

Jenny Slate

Voice Loved Doing My Own Become Kid

I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.

John Otway

Career Wrong Years Everything Low

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

Alva Noto

Yourself You Choose Go Open Limit

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

Storm Jameson

Women Men Think Learn Attention You

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'

Tommy Lee Jones

People Problems Normal Normal People

Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.

Toni Braxton

Yourself Dating Someone You Back

It is beautiful to see two people in a lasting relationship.

Divyanka Tripathi

Relationship Beautiful People See

If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course of American lives and backed up those demands with the willingness to give up your life in service of your civil rights, with Black Lives Matter, a more internalized change is being asked for: recognition.

Claudia Rankine

Life Change Service King Black

Sometimes when you get eager, you get sloppy. Sometimes when you get sloppy, you get knocked out.

Brian Ortega

You Sometimes Out Get Knocked Eager

A lot of guys I know loved 'Sex and the City.' They'll take it to their grave, but they watched every episode of it.

Allison Williams

City Loved Sex Know Take Grave

I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.

Alison Krauss

Music Me Listening Find I Can Want

In terms of 'Saving Face,' I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn't let their attacks stop them from pursuing justice and seeking treatment.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Justice Face Stop Inspired Who Them