Sarah Dessen Quotes

I'll always be grateful for 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' It brought me many, many, readers.

I'm so excited for readers to get their hands on 'The Spring Girls.'

Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.

My favorite book is 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky.

I'm completely obsessed with Andrew Smith's 'Winger.' A great, hilarious, and moving story.

What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.

One book that I just think is absolutely beautiful is 'The Kite Runner.' I'd recommend that one to any and everyone.

The Thorn Birds' by Colleen McCullough. I took it on a holiday to Greece and just fell in love with it.

My favorite book growing up was 'The Little Prince.'

I have several books I can read over and over. With fiction, it's 'The Stand' by Stephen King, which is my favorite all time. I read that at least once a year, the version which has 100,000 extra words, which is like the director's cut and unabridged. I love the story. I love the social connotation to it.

My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.

I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'

The English Patient' is about the coming together of a French-Canadian nurse, an English patient, a Sikh in a turban and me, Caravaggio, and each of us is seeking a resolution to our own problems.

Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.

'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith is one of my favorites. Even though it doesn't have any monsters or crazy fantasy in it, it's such a raw story, and I can really relate to the characters. I think it's a beautiful story.

The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.

I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

Some of my favorite memories happened in the 'Boy Meets World' classroom.

I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.

'Puffball' is a love story... no, it's a life story.

As with all great works of literature, 'Of Mice and Men' moves with the inexorability of a huge river, and it pours itself, exhausts itself, in the sea of our unconscious. Having read it, we carry the book inside us forever.

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Prayers offered in times of peace are silent conversations, Appeals for love, or love's release, in private invocations But all that is changed now. Gone like a memory from the day before the fires. People hungry for the voice of God Hear lunatics and liars. Wartime prayers. Wartime prayers In every language spoken. For every family scattered and broken.

Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, 'Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.'