Sara Zarr
Sara Zarr
Sara Zarris an American writer. She was raised in San Francisco, and now lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband. Her first novel, Story of a Girl, was a 2007 National Book Award finalist. She is also the author of Sweethearts and Once Was Lost. All three are published by Little, Brown...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth3 October 1970
CountryUnited States of America
passion discipline violin
I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.
struggle awful obscure
There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.
opportunity interesting doe
When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.
nice book reading
One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.
growing-up father school
My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.
country book editors
My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am so disconnected from that process that it seems almost imaginary. With 'How to Save a Life', I worked closely with Usborne editors and have been involved in the publicity.
christian different sincere
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.
thinking years people
I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.
writing littles way
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.
writing trying difficult
The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.
giving bears lord
The Lord doesn't give a person more than he knows they can bear.
trying littles tenderness
Try a little tenderness ...
memories remembrance done
When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
memories hands years
This was a memory I wanted to keep, whole, and recall again and again. When I was fifty years old I wanted to remember this moment on the porch, holding hands with Cameron while he shared himself with me. I didn’t want it to be something on the fringes of my memory like so many other things about Cameron and myself.