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24 quotes by Deb Caletti

Deb Caletti is an American writer of young adult and adult fiction. Caletti is a National Book Award finalist, as well as the recipient of other numerous awards including PEN USA finalist award, the Washington State Book Award, and SLJ Best Book award. Caletti's books feature the Pacific Northwest, and her young adult work is popular for tackling difficult issues typically reserved for adult fiction. Her first adult fiction novel, "He's Gone",...
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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.

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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... →

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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