Sara Zarr Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“I don't want to pretend like I'm some intellectual person who understands Flannery O'Connor.”

“I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.”

“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.”

“My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”