"My first job is to write the characters……" — Sara Zarr
"My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can."
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87 Quotes by Sara Zarr
Sara Zarr has 87 quotes on this site.
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My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but…
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I get a message from my dad. In the mood I'm in, I tear up to see his name in…
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I have no desire to go back to San Francisco.
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There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a…
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Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take…
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Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.
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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,…
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I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
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I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.
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I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long…
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I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel…
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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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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
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Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places…
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look…
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Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any…
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Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting…
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the…
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You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going…
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People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.
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