Sarah Dessen Quotes

I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.

I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a long time; sometimes it comes just like that.

You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't think you really do. It's great to look at a blank sheet of paper, you know, and walk up to an instrument and not know what's gonna happen. It's the most challenging thing I do.

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

I don't know - it's a bit of a mystery of how things come about when they do. I don't have a scientific explanation for it. Sometimes when you're writing a song, you don't know where you're going.

I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun.

People ask me, 'What's your next film?' And I never know.

You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.

I think it's really important to not talk about how you're going to release something until you've finished it. People are like, "What are we going to make? What are we going to do with it?" and it's just like, "I don't know, we're just making music. Then we'll talk." You can't always write something you're happy with; you can't force it.

I've never really had a certain style of music in mind that I make, or am really adamant on how something should sound, but I like the process of not knowing, of just seeing what happens and what comes out.

I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance.

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.

I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.