Sara Zarr Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

  Sara Zarr

  Writing, Trying, Difficult

  "Teen book club: Cat Clarke interviews Sara Zarr". Interview with Cat Clarke, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

• 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.

  Sara Zarr

  Writing, Example, Littles

  "Teen book club: Cat Clarke interviews Sara Zarr". Interview with Cat Clarke, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

• I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.

  Sara Zarr

  Christian, Writing, Fiction

• 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.

  Sara Zarr

  Mother, Believe, Writing

• My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

  Sara Zarr

  Jobs, Writing, Character

• I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

  Sara Zarr

  Writing, Character, Stories

• I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.

  Sara Zarr

  Writing, Class, Voice

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