Sara Paretsky famous quotes

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Puppy #Feels #Therapy

There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their own complete collections, or those who need a computer, or kids who need a safe place to read after school, or moms with toddlers who want their babies to learn to read, can all come together and share in a great community resource.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Mom #Baby #Book

I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time-you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all I can do is wait for the next book.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Book #Jealous #Waiting

Write what you care about.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Writing #Care

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
-- Sara Paretsky

#White #America #Crime

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Crime #Favourite #Genre

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Thinking #Stories #Way

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Writing #Thinking #Panic

I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Sopranos

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
-- Sara Paretsky

#White #Justice #Criminals

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Atheist #Agnostic #Ends

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Country #Mean #Magic

The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Book #Names #America

I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Thinking #Hands #Interesting

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Different #Rich #More Money

Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Hurt #Moving #Arms

Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Safe #Sides #Wonderful

Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Journey #Government #Order

Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Men #Underestimate #Ability

I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Lying #Believe #Stories

If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Good Luck #Lucky #Born

The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.
-- Sara Paretsky

#News #Vietnam #World

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Lakes #Swim #Golden

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating
-- Sara Paretsky

#Writing #Pages #Nine

Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Numbers #Return #Something Better

All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Food #Comfort #Pasta

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Country #Writing #Long

The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Pain #Perspective #Joy

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Writing #Years #White

She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Growing Up #Writing #Loss

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Book #People #Magazines

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Sibling #Home #Parent

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Inspirational #Funny #Graduation

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Life #Keys #Glasses

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book
-- Sara Paretsky

#Book #Writing #Everest

I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Grandmother #Proud

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11
-- Sara Paretsky

#Girl #Magazines #Firsts

Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Sister #Crime #Members

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming
-- Sara Paretsky

#Giving #Church #Trying

I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with
-- Sara Paretsky

#Perfect #Lucky #Partners

I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time
-- Sara Paretsky

#Girl #Home #Kansas

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs
-- Sara Paretsky

#Chicago #Cubs

I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues
-- Sara Paretsky

#Loyal #Following

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more
-- Sara Paretsky

#Cities #Space #People

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel
-- Sara Paretsky

#Novel #Wanted #Publish

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship
-- Sara Paretsky

#Book #Want #Agents

Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.
-- Sara Paretsky

#Heart #Names #Two