Sarah Dessen Quotes

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

I am private.

I just wanted to have a private life.

One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.

I wish we were alone,” he says. “I almost always wish that,” I say.

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.

I have not a desire but a need for solitude.

I want to be alone ... I just want to be alone.

For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.

I'm the most private person.

When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible.

Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.

If I can just live further from the spotlight I think that'll be better for all really.

Sometimes it's nice for people not to know anything about me.

When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my 'hood, and people leave me alone; it's nice.

I prefer to be a private person.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

I don't like to go out to parties or clubbing, and I kind of like my anonymity.

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.

One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means going public. But the actual activity could scarcely be more invisible. And private.