Sara Zarr Quotes - Page 2

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• It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.

  Sara Zarr

  Mean, Different, Way

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• I understand that you can never have the whole picture; inevitably, there’s stuff you don’t know, can’t know. But when it comes to Cameron I always want more than I have, would like to be able to take hold of at least one or two more pieces, if only because I’m convinced there are parts of myself inside them.

  Sara Zarr

  Two, Pieces, Want

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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.

  Sara Zarr

  Writing, Example, Littles

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

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• Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.

  Sara Zarr

  Should Have, Needs, Want

  Sara Zarr (2012). “How To Save A Life”, p.108, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Some people come into your life and leave a mark.

  Sara Zarr

  People, Mark

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• Try a little tenderness.

  Sara Zarr

  Trying, Littles, Tenderness

  Sara Zarr (2012). “How To Save A Life”, p.24, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• What brings two people together anyway?

  Sara Zarr

  Two, People, Together

  "Sweethears". Book by Sara Zarr, 2008.

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• Because love, love never finishes.

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  Sara Zarr (2008). “Sweethearts”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• Can it really be love if we don't talk that much, don't see each other? Isn't love something that happens between people who spend time together and know each other's faults and take care of each other?...In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love.

  Sara Zarr

  Color, People, Together

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• Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.

  Sara Zarr

  Years, Identity, Crisis

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• The Lord doesn't give a person more than he knows they can bear.

  Sara Zarr

  Giving, Bears, Lord

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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.

  Sara Zarr

  Hands, Sometimes, Rescue

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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.

  Sara Zarr

  Buttons, Want, Faces

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• My whole life has been one big broken promise.

  Sara Zarr

  Broken, Rejection, Promise

  Sara Zarr (2012). “How To Save A Life”, p.152, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• and i don't just mean that they change you. a lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. it's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people......i'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you has your own soul. their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business.

  Sara Zarr

  Teacher, Smart, Heart

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• 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

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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.

  Sara Zarr

  Character, Events, Plot

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• 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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• the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.

  Sara Zarr

  Past, Different, Up To You

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• I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.

  Sara Zarr

  Character, Research, Might

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• The one thing that could never die or be buried was my loyalty to Cameron for everything he’d done for me and what we’d been through together, even if that loyalty was a ghost.

  Sara Zarr

  Loyalty, Together, Done

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• I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.

  Sara Zarr

  Real, World, Too Much

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• Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow.

  Sara Zarr

  Artist, Hands, Rejection

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• There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

  Sara Zarr

  Girl, Book, Years

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• 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.

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