Quotes by Sarah Dessen

About Sarah Dessen:

Sarah Dessen is an American writer who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.

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Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.

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for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.

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Norman picked up a sketch, glanced at it, then put it back down on the table. "I saw Bea Williamson this morning," he said in a low voice. "Lurking about looking for cut glass." "Oh, of course," Mira said with a sigh. "Did she have it with her?" Norm...

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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 hap...

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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.

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Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.

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I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.

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I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.

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In high school, I was lucky enough to have a big group of girlfriends that have really inspired a lot of the stories in my books. I'm still close with my friends from that time, so it's never very hard to put myself back into that place, that voice.

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Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

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When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The guys I liked were quirky and different: They listened to music I'd never heard of, never had lunch or gas money, and could always make you ...

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I think my mother characters have changed a lot since Sasha was born, just because I understand what a hard job it is now, and I'm coming at it from another angle - like you just love and care about this person so much, and just want to protect them ...

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I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.

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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.

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My books are so tame!

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Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as I can, but you reach a point as the author where you have lost all perspective.

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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!

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I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

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I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

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I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting.

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Author Bio

  • NameSarah Dessen
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornJune 6, 1970
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist