Readers want a story, not a pattern. It’s the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars. Sara Zarr Read Quote
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. Sara Zarr Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The one reader I’m trying to please as I write is me, and I’m pretty difficult to please. Sara Zarr Read Quote
I’m so focused on trying to craft the story that I’m in my own little world with it and that process. The one reader I’m trying to please as I write is me, and I’m pretty difficult to please. Sara Zarr Read Quote
The characters are whole, real people to me that I’m getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope. Sara Zarr Read Quote
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. Sara Zarr Read Quote
I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin… If we’d had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good. Sara Zarr Read Quote
I don’t want to pretend like I’m some intellectual person who understands Flannery O’Connor. Sara Zarr Read Quote
