Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it's not for me.
Sarah Dessen
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Much
Author
Way
Admire
Time
Control
Think
Anyone
Thinking
Anything
People
Enough
Hard
Writing
Freak
More quotes by Sarah Dessen
When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.
Sarah Dessen
Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.
Sarah Dessen
It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.
Sarah Dessen
As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.
Sarah Dessen
You know, I told him,if you don't know how to eat a cupcake, that's nothing to be ashamed of. Now he did smile. I know how to eat a cupcake. Sure you do. I do, he said. I just don't want one of those. Yeah? Prove it.
Sarah Dessen
its been a long night aren't they all?
Sarah Dessen
It's never long distance between friends.
Sarah Dessen
You can't act like you care about someone but not let them care about you.
Sarah Dessen
Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.
Sarah Dessen
I took in a breath. What's the one thing you'd do, I asked. if you could do anything? Pass, he said. For a second I was sure I'd heard wrong. What? He cleared his throat. I said, I pass. Why? He turned his head and looked at me. Because. Because why? Because I just do.
Sarah Dessen
You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.
Sarah Dessen
If you were dead, Owen told her, you'd have bigger problems than what you were wearing.
Sarah Dessen
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 book I’ve read it so many times that it’s time to move on.
Sarah Dessen
And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.
Sarah Dessen
Okay, he said. He took a breath. What would you do, if you could do anything? I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. This. I said. And then I kissed him.
Sarah Dessen
So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.
Sarah Dessen
I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever known.
Sarah Dessen
You should have seen your face, she said, her breath hot in my ear. Sa-woooon.
Sarah Dessen
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
I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.
Sarah Dessen