Sara Zarr Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 3, 1970

Topics

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My father's an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera immersion. I like the grandness and pretention of it.

Andrew Solomon

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I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention of leaving the country of my birth.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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In full accordance with the law - and in order to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States and to save American lives - the United States government conducts targeted strikes against specific al-Qa'ida terrorists, sometimes using remotely piloted aircraft, often referred to publicly as drones.

John O. Brennan

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If the government did a good job of publicizing this information, my products wouldn't sell.

Matthew Lesko

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An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

Maurice Chevalier

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I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.

Soulja Boy

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The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements.

Louis Dudek

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When I was 6, I learned where I came from, which was one step removed from the usual circumstances. I was adopted.

Lisa Lutz

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Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.

Joshua Foer

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I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

Jordan Peele

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The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.

Colm Toibin

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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

Brendan Behan

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