Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Once I’m done with a book, I’m done! I’m just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I’ve finished a… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite book is 'A Prayer For Owen Meany', by John Irving. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
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… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I think my biggest problem, though, at least in drafts, is not repeating myself. After eight books I get worried that a… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Once, she'd been a pro at decompressing, loved to sit on the back deck of the beach house in one of our… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Usually when I finish the draft of a book, I'm sure I'll never write another one. I'm just that tired and sick… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I think having a good agent is key. I've been with mine for ten years now, and she's very honest with me.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“At times, I found myself questioning his very existence, even though I knew I had, in fact, spotted him, with my own eyes.” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
You don't have to say it out loud. I already know why you like me.' 'You do, huh?' 'Yep.' He wrapped his arms around… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
When you had to do something, you had to do it. And eventually, if you were lucky, you did it well. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
I jammed my hand in my jacket pocket, bracing myself fo the next hit, and fel something. Something grainy and samll, sticking to the… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
“But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn’t… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
“For me, however, it was a mix of the two, this constant push and pull. I loved it here. But I'd been in that… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
