Sarah Dessen Quotes

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.

I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.

Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.

Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.

Imagination makes us shape better stories, sure, but it also allows us to multiply possibilities.

My portal to another world was fiction.

Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.

The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

Even a dream as inspiration doesn't mean anything unless you then find that it's sparked an actual story with a plot.

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.

I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real.