Sara Zarr Quotes (36 quotes)

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„When my characters are questioning things, it's not me leading up to an answer; it's me asking those same questions and letting the characters' lives unfold and seeing where it takes them.“
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„When a young reader tells you that they'd never finished a book outside of school until they read yours, or that they really needed to hear something that one of your characters says or thinks... that's just rewarding and humbling.“
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„We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We're haunted by our particular demons.“
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„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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„Making lists of favorite things is, for me, a task ridden with anxiety. What if I've accidentally excluded something I love? What if I discover something new tomorrow that I love even more?“
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„Is it good, bad, or neutral to recognize thematic patterns in your own work? When it comes to recurring themes, I'm of the mind that knowledge is probably not power, at least in terms of the work.“
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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 one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.“
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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 we don't notice it until we've written three or four books.“
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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, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.“
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„The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.“
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„My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.“
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„My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.“
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„I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If we'd had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.“
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„I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.“
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„I don't want to pretend like I'm some intellectual person who understands Flannery O'Connor.“
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„I always felt that church is where I'm going to find my community and people to live my life with.“
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„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. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.“
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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 that they have gone through.“
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„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 so disconnected from that process that it seems almost imaginary. With 'How to Save a Life', I worked closely with Usborne editors and have been involved in the publicity.“
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„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.“
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Sara Zarr
Author born: October 03, 1970
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Writer

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