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don’t mistake a new place for a new you.

Sara Zarr

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Mistake
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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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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's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.
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I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.
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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.
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I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.
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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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My whole life has been one big broken promise.
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It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.
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It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
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My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.
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Try a little tenderness.
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I tried his cell over and over but he never answered. Then I’d call just to hear his voice on the outgoing message, until eventually that was gone too.
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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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We'd need a miracle, he says. A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?
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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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Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
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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 should have something you don't need but that you want.
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No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.
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