Deb Caletti
Related AVI KAZUO ISHIGURO ANTHONY BOURDAIN RAY CHARLES MICHEL FABER When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, ... JANE YOLEN I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can'... CAROLINE LEAVITT I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in whic... EVAN DANDO I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I lik... JOY FIELDING G. WILLOW WILSON LISA LOEB ELLEN HOPKINS DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having c... JERRY POURNELLE FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. FLANNERY O'CONNOR As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them di... SYLVIA DAY ALEKSANDAR HEMON I never learned to be a writer. I never took screenwriting courses. I never read anyone's script... DEREK CIANFRANCE ANN HOOD Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people ... JOSH LIEB I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that... STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS CARL HIAASEN GORE VIDAL JAIME LERNER NEIL GAIMAN MADELEINE L'ENGLE RYAN COOGLER BEN HOROWITZ R. KELLY CASSANDRA CLARE PAUL THEROUX BRIAN SELZNICK I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - bu... YURI LOWENTHAL WILLIAM COBBETT JASPER FFORDE I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I... NATHANIEL RICH PATRICIA BRIGGS RAINBOW ROWELL BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to b... TED CHIANG One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel,” Megan had tweeted back.L.L. BARKAT KIM YOUNG-HA ASHTON KUTCHER ITALO CALVINO BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA JONATHAN MABERRY Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically a... JOE DANTE JACK LEMMON To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They'r... PAMELA PAUL I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover oth... PATRICIA REILLY GIFF ROBERT PENN WARREN LYNDON B. JOHNSON FLANNERY O'CONNOR GORE VIDAL My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot. JOHN SEARLES I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never hav... JON SCIESZKA Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, wha... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN ADELE I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer shoul... JOHN BOYNE ROBERT JORDAN RAY BRADBURY I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will... MICHAEL ROBOTHAM can you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to ... AGATHA CHRISTIE JENNIFER EGAN WENDY COPE ENID BLYTON BRYCE COURTENAY WALTER GILBERT ZARA LARSSON CHINUA ACHEBE It's way easier to write for other people. Yourself isn't in it. When you write for yourself... SAM DEW I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyte... ERRI DE LUCA ISABEL ALLENDE MAXINE KUMIN JENNIFER EGAN SUZANNE SOMERS URSULA K. LE GUIN YANNI I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the ques... K. A. APPLEGATE WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN M. STANTON EVANS It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know... EARL SWEATSHIRT I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books... LOUIS L'AMOUR I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that'... ERIC VAN LUSTBADER They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was be... DYAN CANNON BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
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I didn't shoot non-sto... DEB REMMERDE DEB BAKER DEB BAKER DEB BAKER DEB BAKER DEB BAKER DEB BAKER DEB BAKER DEB BAKER DEB BAKER DEB BAKER DEB BAKER You don't have to be a member, just show up to give your services. DEB WOLF Many children use it as a memory and for comfort because kids deal with death differently than we do... DEB WOLF We offer a lot of hope to kids going through some pretty stressful things. DEB WOLF We have worked on this for a long time and to see it coming to fruition, it's exciting for the commu... DEB WILLIAMS We have so many different areas to choose from. Whether it's teaching the 5- to 9-year-olds how to m... DEB WILLIAMS We tell them to get the kids a good breakfast, and enough sleep the night before. DEB WALLACE We do things to motivate [the students]. It's a lot of pressure, and we try to make it easier for th... DEB WALLACE We're so grateful to all the teachers for coming out. They all worked together. DEB WALLACE I thought we had a better team effort than we did at North Central (College First Chance Meet). We'r... DEB VERCAUTEREN The NCAA made the general public more aware of women's sports. But we still need more opportunities ... DEB VERCAUTEREN When I was in high school, we had track for five weeks my senior year. That was all for women's spor... DEB VERCAUTEREN We don't want to lose the outdoor title by a point again. DEB VERCAUTEREN That puts a different chemistry of athletes in the national championships. You also have a couple of... DEB VERCAUTEREN We remember that we were one point away last year and that's added fuel. This is a whole new season,... DEB VERCAUTEREN We lost outdoor by a point last year, but scored more points than we were supposed to. The team perf... DEB VERCAUTEREN But we need other people to step up. We need to be in the high 40s to be in contention. DEB VERCAUTEREN This year was really special. Many times you can have a good team, but they can be difficult. But th... DEB VERCAUTEREN We want to be a trophy team, which would be in the top four. And we'd like to be in contention for t... DEB VERCAUTEREN I was hoping they would get a sense of what it's like to create their own show. I also wanted them t... DEB TYTE They were aware that different environments gave it a different feeling. DEB TYTE We started by talking about some of the local public-art projects that have taken place recently. Th... DEB TYTE About 1,000 to 1,500 people pass through here. The community really gets behind us. DEB TRINE Some people just come in for breakfast and leave or come in for lunch and leave. DEB TRINE Three years ago this was still the same soup. DEB TRINE The 'What's the point award' is the same concept. DEB TRINE A lot of people who aren't parishioners or parents come out every year. It's a fun?filled day. DEB TRINE It was a great effort to keep working hard and finish the game. We strung some hits together. DEB THOMPSON To keep Sioux Falls the giving community it is, we need to start with the kids. They truly, truly kn... DEB THOMPSON I love Old Town and it is just amazing to work and be on the cobblestone streets. DEB THOMAS Nobody believes this is not going to move forward. DEB THOMAS We were missing two key starters in the second overtime, but I'm proud of the girls. DEB TAYLOR She's a very unselfish player for us. She's about getting the ball to her teammates. She handles the... DEB TAYLOR Their zone press gave us some trouble in the second half. We were getting good looks at the basket o... DEB TAYLOR It was what sealed our love for the cultures of my children's homelands. But remember to celebrate y... DEB SUMIEC Very few countries operate at the frenetic pace America does. DEB SUMIEC My closest relationships in life are with people I am not biologically related to. DEB SUMIEC They would like to see people more sheltered at home to lower risk of transmission. DEB STEFFEN We're so scattered all over the country--have a family plan of how you're going to notify each other... DEB STEFFEN With 15-35 percent of the population becoming ill, we're not going to be able to be stocking our sto... DEB STEFFEN If Northwest Iowa hospitals get bogged down with a number of flu cases, maybe central Iowa has more ... DEB STEFFEN You don't want a bunch of people panicking and terrified that we're not going to be able to do anyth... DEB STEFFEN We're in the middle of our migration season now where birds are flying. Are they going to bring it b... DEB STEFFEN We never know when a pandemic is going to hit so it's part of our bio-emergency planning. DEB STEFFEN Today, all Windows Mobile devices can already communicate directly with Exchange Server 2003. Direct... DEB SOMMER We had a nice pitching performance from Katie. DEB SMITH We were very flat [in Game Two]. We got behind early and we couldn't catch up. The fighting spirit w... DEB SMITH She pitched well and showed a lot of control. She had great defense behind her and that gave us a lo... DEB SMITH [Game One] was a good game for us. It was well pitched and we got some timely hitting. DEB SMITH
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