Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessenis an American writer who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 June 1970
CityEvanston, IL
teenager fearless want
Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.
book thinking long
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 a book (written) -- for me, it's never quick.
writing wrapping-paper notes
I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.
kind imagine enlightened
The kind who live for music and are constantly seeking it out, anywhere they can. Who can't imagine a life without it. They're enlightened.
school high-school ifs
You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.
girl teenage thinking
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.
book perfect perspective
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.
book thinking scripts
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.
book writing thinking
Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.
writing school trying
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.
book cereal inspire
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.
book
My books are so tame!
memories perfect cracks
The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.
hurt first-love once-in-a-lifetime
You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.