Quotes from Deb Caletti

A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger.