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. Sarah Dessen Read Quote
Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know. Sarah Dessen Read Quote
Each time, I think I’m never going to write another book. It never gets easier. Sarah Dessen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I think my mother characters have changed a lot since Sasha was born, just because I understand what a hard job it is now, and I’m coming at it from another angle – like you just love and care about this person so much, and just want to protect them from everything. Sarah Dessen Read Quote
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. Sarah Dessen Read Quote
If I had to pick, I’d say my favorite book is ‘A Prayer For Owen Meany’, by John Irving. Sarah Dessen Read Quote
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. Sarah Dessen Read Quote