Books Quotes by Sarah Dessen

My books are so tame!

— Sarah Dessen

“if i were a book i would be so open”

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I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.

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

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

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

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

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Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

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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.

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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…

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“Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you…

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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…

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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;…

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When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

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I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.

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I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books.…

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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

In high school, I was lucky enough to have a big group of girlfriends that have really inspired a lot of the…

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I think my biggest problem, though, at least in drafts, is not repeating myself. After eight books I get worried that a…

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It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that…

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When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All…

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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…

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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…

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I think the most important thing is just to write. It sounds so simple, but sometimes it's not. You can get so…

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“I know there were no guaratnees. No way of knowing what came next for me, or him, or anything. Some things dont…

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“You know," she said finally, "I only get upset because I want you to have everything I didn't." "The moon and more,"…

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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…

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“You and Wes," she said, triumphant, "are just likethis ." She was holding a book, a paperback romance. The title, emblazoned in…

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I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you,…

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She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.

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I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

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Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.

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

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My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even…

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I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought…

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My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full…

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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…

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I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor…

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I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75…

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