Sarah Dessen Quotes
Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.
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I'm probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better, more and more refined. Become 'pure.' I don't think that's going to happen to me, because I don't really see that as something I want to explore.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I'm a slow starter.
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I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.
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Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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I don't really love roller coasters because I feel like they're filled with germs and make me nauseous.
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I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.
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Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
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The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It's something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you should never ignore it.
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.
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Our fifth premise is that the resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.
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Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.
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Genetic determinism... On its interpretation depends the entire relation between biology and the social sciences.
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Rasputin's daughter understands the revolution. She would have been an outsider, a spectator in the royal family and to the revolution.
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I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.
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I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.
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I'm not sure if being Chinese really helped, but I do think that if a non-Asian had written a book called 'Crazy Rich Asians,' they might not have been looked upon so kindly.
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The one test I have for every completed book is if I feel head over heels in love with the hero. If he hasn't stolen my heart from the previous hero, I know the book isn't right.
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Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.
