1,310 Quotes by Sarah Dessen

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.