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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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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
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Cleveland
Ohio
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When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
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He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the way I remember it.
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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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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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Katy skipped over, her low-rise jeans threatening to fall off her skinny hips. With some girls, that was a sexy look. With Katy, it made you nervous.
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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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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 lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
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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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don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
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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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Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
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It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
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Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
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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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. . .There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your heart is tender a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless.
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We'd need a miracle, he says. A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?
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I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.
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Sometimes rescue comes to you. It just shows up, and you do nothing. Maybe you deserve it, maybe you don't. But be ready, when it comes, to decide if you will take the outstretched hand and let it pull you ashore.
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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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