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Sarah Dessen

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

— Sarah Dessen love

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

— Sarah Dessen hope

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 laugh.

— Sarah Dessen music

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

— Sarah Dessen books

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

— Sarah Dessen fear

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!

— Sarah Dessen book

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.

— Sarah Dessen love

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

— Sarah Dessen life

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.

— Sarah Dessen books

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.

— Sarah Dessen books

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

— Sarah Dessen book

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.

— Sarah Dessen love

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.

— Sarah Dessen writers

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.

— Sarah Dessen books

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.

— Sarah Dessen books

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

— Sarah Dessen parents

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.

— Sarah Dessen self

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

— Sarah Dessen you

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

— Sarah Dessen writing

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

— Sarah Dessen books

My books are so tame!

— Sarah Dessen books

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.

— Sarah Dessen school

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

— Sarah Dessen time

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

— Sarah Dessen writing

I'm all about shrimpburgers, reading, and going to the beach.

— Sarah Dessen reading

Some things dont last forever, but some things do.

— Sarah Dessen forever

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

— Sarah Dessen love

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

— Sarah Dessen law

I wasn’t ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn’t that I wasn’t right for Macon, but that maybe he wasn’t right for me. There was a difference. Even for someone who things didn’t come easy for, someone like me.

— Sarah Dessen think

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