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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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Really
Interested
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Events
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Small
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Plot
Stories
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don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
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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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And he left. I watched him walk out – he didn’t say good-bye, he didn’t even look back. It scared me, how easy it was for him to do that.
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It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
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Try a little tenderness.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
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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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My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.
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