Writer Quotes by Sara Zarr

11 Writer quotes by Sara Zarr

Zarr’s experience in television and memoir informs these eleven candid thoughts on the writer’s voice. She balances vulnerability with craft, making the collection a useful touchstone for anyone wrestling with authenticity.

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I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to…

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My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

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The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

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I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

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I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it…

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I'm so focused on trying to craft the story that I'm in my own little world with it and that process. The…

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I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in…

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My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because…

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One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be…

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I tend to describe recurring themes as being part of a writer's DNA - something so deeply embedded in us that even…

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It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night,…

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I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.

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And he left. I watched him walk out – he didn’t say good-bye, he didn’t even look back. It scared me, how easy it…

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The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed…

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“Does all this have anything to do with Cameron coming back?" "Basically." She didn't put any letters down. Our game had effectively stopped. "I…

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