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In a way, “failure” is just another word for “the journey,” for not being there yet but on the way. It’s the road we walk on to get wherever it is we’re trying to go.

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Way
Road
Failure
Walk
Journey
Walks
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Trying
Wherever

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We'd need a miracle, he says. A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?
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It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.
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I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.
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When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
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Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
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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 the story forward.
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I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else...no contest.
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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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What brings two people together anyway?
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Because love, love never finishes.
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I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.
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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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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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Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound.
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It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.
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Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.
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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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A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don't think it works quite like that. You can't just erase everything that came before.
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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.
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