“I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that...” — Sara Zarr Quote

“I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.”

“I don't want to pretend like I'm some intellectual person who understands Flannery O'Connor.”

“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.”

“I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.”

“Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.”

“I never felt that I belonged. When I was at school... First I went to a Jewish school, when I was very little. But when I was 12, they put me in a school with a lot of traditions, and they were educated people and they were talking about Greece and the Parthenon and I don't know what.”