David Leavitt

“The problem with memory is that it's not a video camera. It's a storyteller.”

“I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children, between friends, between lovers and their loved ones. We think we're so important to other people, but the fact is we're not.”

“Writing is a way of processing the world. It’s a way of making sense of things that are confusing or painful.”

“We are all tourists in history, and history is always rewritten.”

“Home is the place where you are most yourself. Home is the place where you are understood.”

“It's the secrets that hold a family together.”

“The past is not a foreign country. It's a place where we all live, whether we like it or not.”

“What I wanted most was a life of my own. A life that was not defined by my family or my sexuality.”

“He was trying to make us think about what it means to be a reader in a world in which reading is less and less important.”

“Love is based on a series of illusions.”

“I believe in the power of stories. I believe that stories can change the world.”

“In love, as in life, we are all just making it up as we go along.”