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" I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods. "
Deb Caletti
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Nuclear
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" My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer. "
Deb Caletti
Write
Dream
Book
" 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
Home
Living
Look
" 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
Feeling
Down
Me
" 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
Ideas
Beginning
Book
" 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
Big
Important
" 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
Girl
God
Start
" When your arms are out wide, you'll capture love and joy and golden moments but other things, too. Mistrust will sneak in on a wave of that joy, and complications will ride the backs of the golden moments, and there will be both love and the risks of love. That's the way it is. That's the design. "
Deb Caletti
Joy
Risks
Moments
" You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear. "
Deb Caletti
Book
You
Will
" Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight. "
Deb Caletti
Bad
Sometimes
Good
" Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays. "
Deb Caletti
Parents
Abundance
Holidays
" It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant. "
Deb Caletti
Love
Want
Nature
" In a lifetime, the recipe always needs amending - more of this, a little less of that, what to do now that the cake has fallen. "
Deb Caletti
Always
Now
Recipe
" 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
Own
History
Character
" 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
Driving
Worry
" 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
Finding
Write
" I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them. "
Deb Caletti
Books
Am
About
" I've never met a popcorn ball I didn't like. "
Deb Caletti
Like
Popcorn
Never
" 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
Own
Truth
Understand
" 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
Everything
Lucky
Book
" When you go looking for rescue, you end up trapped in your own weakness. "
Deb Caletti
You
End
Go
" 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
Say
Writing
Book
" '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
Boy
Baby
Nature
" 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
Chance
Sun
" 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
Good
Great
Moment
" 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
My Life
Life
Working
" Often, marriage was solitude, with company. "
Deb Caletti
Company
Marriage
Solitude
" I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power. "
Deb Caletti
I Believe
Love
Believe
" My most memorable teacher was Rich Campe, my third-grade teacher at Fairlands Elementary in Pleasanton, California. "
Deb Caletti
California
Memorable
Rich