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. Sarah Dessen Read Quote
I’m famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they’re finished. Sarah Dessen Read Quote
I can’t sit and twiddle my thumbs. I have to start writing even if it’s miserable some days. Sarah Dessen Read Quote
I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It’s the last gasp of really being a teen. Sarah Dessen Read Quote
I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I’ve spent in Chapel Hill, N.C. Sarah Dessen Read Quote
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. Sarah Dessen Read Quote
I always wished I could move around and switch schools. It was hard to have these radical transformations. You’d think, ‘I will be a totally different person tomorrow,’ but it never worked. Sarah Dessen Read Quote
