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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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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Sincere
Active
Christian
Place
Come
Different
Always
Things
Conflicted

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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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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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When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
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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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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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Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.
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Try a little tenderness.
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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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the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.
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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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Because love, love never finishes.
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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 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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My whole life has been one big broken promise.
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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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It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.
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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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don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
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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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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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