Quotes by Sarah Dessen

About Sarah Dessen:

Sarah Dessen is an American writer who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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I'm all about shrimpburgers, reading, and going to the beach.

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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.

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I can't sit and twiddle my thumbs. I have to start writing even if it's miserable some days.

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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.

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If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite book is 'A Prayer For Owen Meany', by John Irving.

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I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.

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I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance.

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I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.

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I've never envied the person who had to put my books together in one script.

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I just started to put texting and phones in my books. I want my books to be read 20 years from now; I don't want them to be dated.

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If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, ...

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I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished.

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Author Bio

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