Praise
Praise for Donna Levin's Books
"A novelist to keep high on your reading list." ~Digby Diehl, The Los Angeles Times.
"[Levin's] novel sparkles with saucy humor, crisp dialogue, and a fresh touch to a delicate subject." ~Rocky Mountain News
"Fans of Rebecca L. Brown and Mark Haddon will appreciate Levin’s tender and realistic portrait of a nontraditional yet immediately recognizable family." ~Booklist
"A witty, modern voice delivers a captivating tale about a mysterious death that feels like a light read but soon submerges the reader deep into the throes of substance." ~Kirkus
“A complex and insightful rendering of contemporary love and family.” ~Kirkus
“A lifeboat in a sea of featureless fiction.” ~The San Francisco Chronicle-Examiner
“Frequently funny, sprawling, sexy.” ~The Boston Sunday Globe
"Have you ever fallen in love with an author for the first time through their third, or fourth, or even fifth book and wondered: where have you been all my life and why didn't I discover you sooner?!" ~E Ce Miller, Bustle.com
"There's More than One Way Home deals substantively with issues like autism, and by doing so, stands to appeal to a broad audience as a worthy entry into popular fiction." ~Foreword Reviews
"Levin brings us a story of modern-day romance when life isn't simple. ... Recommended for readers looking for a realistic story of contemporary experience, with a happy ending." ~Library Journal
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"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." ~Thomas Mann
"I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it." ~Ann Patchett
"Your work is so meaningless, so fully for yourself alone, that no one cares whether you do it well. Or ever." ~Annie Dilliard
"The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read." ~Tom Clancy
"Nothing is harder than being a true novelist, unless that's all one wants to be, in which case, while being a true novelist is hard, everything else is harder." ~John Gardner
“I think I did pretty well, considering that I started out with a lot of blank pages.” ~Steve Martin
"It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Many people are not writers, and no harm comes to them." ~Julian Barnes
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel as though I should be doing something else. ~Gloria Steinem
"You can rewrite anything but a blank page." ~Grace Paley
"Let's face it, writing is hell." ~William Styron