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Sara Zarr

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
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Tenderness
Littles

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The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.
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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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My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.
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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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I get a message from my dad. In the mood I'm in, I tear up to see his name in my inbox, and imagine him down the hall in bed, propped on pillows, emailing me. Hon,Enjoyed our gelato date the other night. I just want to say I'm proud of you for a lot of reasons. Also, I've attached a picture of my foot.He's such a weirdo goofball. I love him.
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We'd need a miracle, he says. A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?
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You were never what I wanted to forget.
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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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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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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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It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.
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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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My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.
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That's how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I'm still waiting.
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Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.
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I don’t want these memories to become slippery, to just disappear into the thin air of life the way most things seem to. I want them to stick – even the bad ones – so I repeat them often.
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Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
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I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.
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