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.”

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

“Love is based on a series of illusions.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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