Caroline Leavitt

A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house. ”

When self-publishing started, it was mostly people who really couldn't write. And they just wanted to get their book out, and they couldn't get traditional deals. ”

The dead can't change, but you can. ”

By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Jewish family in a decidedly Christian suburb of Waltham, Mass. ”

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