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Deb Caletti

Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.

— Deb Caletti book

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

— Deb Caletti truth

Although I love snow, it messes things up terribly around Seattle, with all of our hills. I worry about my loved ones driving.

— Deb Caletti love

Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.

— Deb Caletti parents

I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.

— Deb Caletti love

I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.

— Deb Caletti books

All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. It's kind of self-therapy.

— Deb Caletti life

Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the 'Queen of Everything,' I thought it was a book for adults.

— Deb Caletti book

I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.

— Deb Caletti love

I think a setting is hugely important. I look at setting as a character with its own look, sound, history, quirks, goofy temperaments and moods.

— Deb Caletti history

I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods.

— Deb Caletti war

I've never met a popcorn ball I didn't like.

— Deb Caletti

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

— Deb Caletti dream

My most memorable teacher was Rich Campe, my third-grade teacher at Fairlands Elementary in Pleasanton, California.

— Deb Caletti men

One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.

— Deb Caletti love

You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear.

— Deb Caletti book

I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting and where I'll end up, but I have no idea what will happen along the way.

— Deb Caletti writing

I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!

— Deb Caletti art

I wrote one book, signed with a good agent, and sat back and waited for the phone to ring. I was sure that the great news would come at any moment. Four books later, I finally got that call.

— Deb Caletti books

If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams and pursue your passions.

— Deb Caletti dreams

'The Nature of Jade' is about a girl who works with the elephants at the zoo near her home, and who, through her involvement with them, becomes involved with a boy and his baby.

— Deb Caletti work

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.

— Deb Caletti writing

When I was a young mother at home with a two year old and a five year old, living on the Eastside in one of those neighborhoods where all the houses look the same, where all the cars look the same and the lawns look the same, I was writing in secret.

— Deb Caletti writing

Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.

— Deb Caletti books

I shouldnt have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldnt be so afraid of losing someone that Ill do anything to make them stay.

— Deb Caletti love

This is not to say I don’t feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It’s just that the telling does not automatically bring on my own upset, as people assume. I deal more with their reaction than they do with mine, and so you have to choose your timing.

— Deb Caletti time

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