Quote

I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.

Sarah Dessen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Shows
Really
Liking
Think
Enjoying
Thinking
Page
Whenever
Pages
Writer
Enjoy

More quotes by Sarah Dessen

Image
This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.
Sarah Dessen
Image
When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.
Sarah Dessen
Image
It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.
Sarah Dessen
Image
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.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Obviously it won't all run smoothly. But it's important to awknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn fromt them.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Are you crazy? Flirting with Eli Stock in front of Belissa Norwood, in Belissa Norwood’s house, while eating Belissa Norwood’s cupcakes?
Sarah Dessen
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
Image
We can all be beautiful girls.
Sarah Dessen
Image
What, I said, is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?
Sarah Dessen
Image
Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and ideas? You never even give me a chance.
Sarah Dessen
Image
So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.
Sarah Dessen
Image
The way I see it, she continued, is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.
Sarah Dessen
Image
But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.
Sarah Dessen
Image
If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.
Sarah Dessen
Image
And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the only thing.
Sarah Dessen
Image
It's not always so simple, Haven. Sometimes there isn't a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he was. A constant in a world where few, if any, really existed.
Sarah Dessen
Image
It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities.
Sarah Dessen