Sarah Dessen Quotes

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art.

I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

All forms of contact are good: letters, parcels, e-mails - I've been trying to get a Webcam for my computer, but I'm such a Luddite.

If you want to keep on being relevant as a director, I think you have to embrace the times. And with the times come technologies and formats.

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'

Everybody is so busy talking about 'Twittering' and talking about the new technologies and talking about this and that, but they don't talk about creativity.

I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.'

I don't email.

In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.

People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.

I don't believe in e-mail. I rarely use a cell phone and I don't have a fax.

You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.

There are so many emoticons these days, I'm kind of old fashioned.

On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

People's behavior will change with technology. I know very few young people who can't type out a text message on their phone with one thumb, for instance.

Technology has had more of an impact on the presidency and how the presidency communicates than anything.

I try to present something that is full of time. Not timeless, but full of time. I never like a work where we try to update it, but it's still not interesting to see a work that is dated. If one is successful, then a work can be full of time. And time is very complex.

We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text.

Information has become the fundamental element of modern life.

I love the Internet. I love my mobile devices. I love the fact that they mean that whoever chooses to will be able to watch this talk far beyond this auditorium.

I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.