Sarah Dessen Quotes

There are things that you write when you're 20 and there are things that you write when you're 40 and then there are things that you write when you're old.

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview.

I guess you could say I have grown up, matured. I have seen a lot, and I guess that probably sums it up.

I've known and seen a lot of things over my years.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

Time puts things in proper perspective.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

You get more insight as you get older, on everything.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

I think you get better as you get older.