Sarah Dessen Quotes

If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing - it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning.

I was voted most artistic in school.

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.

I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow.

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.

If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.

I like to have a lot of different creative outlets.

Dancing and singing are the two things that have stuck with me throughout my life.

Music, reality shows, acting, all of them are ways to express my feelings. So I will continue to try to do my best in all those categories.

I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in general.

If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.

I don't understand how people live without creating.

You may think you don't have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one of us. The bounds of creativity extend far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen, or the keys of a piano. Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before-colorful gardens, harmonious homes, family memories, flowing laughter.

If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.

Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.

Between films you try to fill your life with hobbies; acting is really so satisfying when you're doing it, and definitely feeds your imagination and creativity to a great degree, but you can't really take much away from it to show for it. I try to fill my time with other things.

At a young age, I really wanted to make music and make my own sort of thing. I'm sure if it wasn't music, it would have been writing, or it would have been maybe painting. I just always had the drive to try and make something with my hands and to just pull something out of myself and shape it and see it in front of me, if that makes any sense.

I do feel like no matter what you're doing, whether it's music or writing a play or a poem or drawing a picture or painting something, that you're speaking to what is it you want to express, what is it you want to see.

I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something - why not write?