Sarah Dessen Quotes

It's simple until you make it complicated.

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'

Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.

At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.

I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it.

People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness.

Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

People want to psychoanalyze me, but the fact is, I'm not that complicated. I'm pretty straightforward. And I'm not all that self-reflective, because I tend to be a doer.

If the audience lets that stuff wash over them, you know - almost like music, rather than dialogue - and doesn't fight it, then they'll have a much easier time rather than being sort of frustrated and confused otherwise. But if you get in the right state of mind it really does work quite well.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter.

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

Simplicity is freedom.

I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and breaks anymore.

If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.

You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.

If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.

I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.