Sarah Dessen Quotes
It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.
Quotes to Explore
-
I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
-
I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
-
Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
-
I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
-
It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
-
I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
-
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
-
I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.
-
And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
-
I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.
-
People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
-
The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.
-
After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.
-
I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.
-
Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
-
Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.
-
We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.
-
As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
-
He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.
-
A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.
-
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.
-
I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
-
The pass-word now is lost To that initiation full and free; Daily we pay the cost Of our slow schooling for divine degree. We know no means to feed an undying lamp; Our lights go out in every wind or damp.
-
It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.
