Sarah Dessen Quotes

Perhaps you're not finished with your story, and who knows if you'll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it's not that important.

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.

I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?

There is a great insatiable hunger for good stories throughout the media.

Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.

To me, there's still nothing more thrilling than, every week, people getting to see another chapter in this story that you're telling.

If you're a fan of anything I do, I'm always telling a story. I'm into that - I like it when you don't know if it was true or not.

I write largely plot-driven stories.

Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts of myths. Myths are like a reservoir containing every story there is.

You're far from this. This story is just another few hundred pages of your mind.

Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work.

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.

There is no story unless you've written it.