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Sara Zarr
Sara Zarr
American Writer
Born: Oct 3, 1970
Books Characters Life Me People School
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
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. Sara Zarr
Me Those Characters Seeing Takes Leading Answer Questioning Questions Up Same Where Unfold Them Asking Lives Letting Things
I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice. Sara Zarr
Time Writing Long Long Time Took Out Find Classes Voice Writer Never Learn Doing Any Formal Figure Things
I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17. Sara Zarr
Time Thought Every Every Time Characters Per Featured Write Ya Decide Story
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 I wrote. Sara Zarr
Suffering Book Girl First Rejection About Ten Ten Years Failing Wrote Were Years Trying Story Again Etc Published Fourth
I have no desire to go back to San Francisco. Sara Zarr
Back Francisco No Desire Go San San Francisco Desire
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward. Sara Zarr
Events Plot Characters Propel More Small Writer Sort Story Interested Really Forward
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 really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years. Sara Zarr
Life Me People Complicated Feelings Think Teen Teen Years Say Those Carry Adolescence Touch Seems Stuck Feel Like How Years Lot Intense Really
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 there wasn't room for what I wanted to write. Sara Zarr
Free Christian Way Write Least Impression Fiction Wanted Room Publishing
One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books. Sara Zarr
You Man Reading Nice Books Favorite He Robert Catholic Devout His Impression Very Get Authors Which Might
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 in my work in some way. Sara Zarr
Work Love Family People Whatever Way Out Some Restricted Perfect Perfect People Were Exist Romance
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. Sara Zarr
Try Gone Back Books Characters Point Through Because Began End Familiar Where Different Growth Bring
When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting. Sara Zarr
Opportunities Shifting Other Plot Something Development Know Reader Does Narrator Get Suspense Interesting Really Sympathies
The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please. Sara Zarr
Me Difficult Please Pretty Write Reader Trying
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. Sara Zarr
Me World Own Difficult Please Focused Pretty My Own Write Reader Trying Craft Process Story Little
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. Sara Zarr
Good Discipline Passion Sister Clarinet Could Had Been Maybe Played Violin
My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote. Sara Zarr
Book Girl First Wrote Story Published Fourth
I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement. Sara Zarr
Church Francisco Part California Were Up Movement Grew San San Francisco Jesus Belonged
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. Sara Zarr
Work Good Knowledge Mind Power Own Recognize Bad Neutral Recurring Terms Least Patterns Thematic Themes Your
Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars. Sara Zarr
Our Various Make Reader Readers Want Story Pattern Really
My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can. Sara Zarr
People Job First Characters Write First Job Well Authentic Full

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