Sarah Dessen Quotes

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.

I don't like spontaneity; there you go. I'm wary of it.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damned things take you.

Wars and revolutions cannot be prescribed and the circle of their influence determined in advance.

The best plan is to have no plan.

I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important.

Life takes turns. There are forks in the road.

People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.

Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.

Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

I'll ride the wave, where it takes me!

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

What I went into the acting business for was to have a certain amount of chaos in my life. I don't know what I'm doing next. It's exciting. That's the way I like it.