Words matter. These are the best Sarah Dessen Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You’re not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it’s all downhill from there.
I’ve been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.
I’m famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they’re finished.
My books are so tame!
Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.
I’m always hopeful. I feel like I’m at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance.
I can’t sit and twiddle my thumbs. I have to start writing even if it’s miserable some days.
I don’t live in New York or California. I’m in the grocery store, at the park with my kids, and I’m a normal person. I’m feeding my chickens and agonizing about my next book!
I’ve changed in my sympathies since I’ve become a mother myself. In high school I went through a period where I was close with my mom and had to break with her in order to find myself and come back. Since that was my experience, that’s often what happens in my books.
If I had to pick, I’d say my favorite book is ‘A Prayer For Owen Meany’, by John Irving.
I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.
I’ve never envied the person who had to put my books together in one script.
I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It’s the one thing I can always count on to calm me down, take me away and inspire me, all at once.
On the whole, I think I spent a lot of high school just trying to stay under the radar: I don’t think I was all that memorable.
I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I’ve spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.
I always wished I could move around and switch schools. It was hard to have these radical transformations. You’d think, ‘I will be a totally different person tomorrow,’ but it never worked.
I’m really happy to have the chance to talk about the editing process. It’s something that I think doesn’t get the weight it deserves, especially with the rise of self-publishing.
