Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessenis an American writer who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 June 1970
CityEvanston, IL
editing each-day pages
Editing is hard but nowhere NEAR as tough as facing that blank page and blinking cursor each day. You're all alone and no one else can do it. At least with editing you have someone in the trench with you.
thinking pages enjoy
I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.
long labels pages
All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.
realization care pages
Because now, I didn't care what they thought. It wasn't new, this realization that I would never be like them. What was different now was that I was glad. Macy page 199
pages stories written
But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.
pages firsts done
Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.
stories pages matter
An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.
life looks pages
Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.
fiction hard tendency weakness
I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time.
inspirational silence loud
Silence is so freaking loud
falling-in-love heart happy-life
Fall in love with someone who truly deserves your heart. Not with someone who plays with it.
mean way surprising
I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.
writing topics picks
Some writers pick a topic and write around that, but I like to include it all.
regret mistake would-be
I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.