Sara Zarr Quotes

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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 of the growth…
• I get a message from my dad. In the mood I'm in, I tear up to see his name in my inbox, and imagine him…
• I have no desire to go back to San Francisco.
• There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book…
• Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you…
• Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.
• I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.
• I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
• I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.
• I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out…
• I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
• The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.
• Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out…
• I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's…
• I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that…
• I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel…
• I'm always in a place that is sincere but conflicted about different things that come with being a Christian and being an active, churchgoing Christian.
• It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always…
• My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am…
• My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing.…

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