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… — 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
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
I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11 — Sara Paretsky Copy Share
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
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
The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share
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
No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship — Sara Paretsky Copy Share
“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
Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share
