The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
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… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11 — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“But one of them had on an Army medal, a service medal, something like that. Do you know all of Chad's Army friends?" Radke… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
