I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders… — 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
