Sara Paretsky Quotes

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• When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.
• My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• 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.…
• I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
• I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book
• I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11
• No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship
• Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel
• 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…
• I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues
• I live and die with the Chicago Cubs
• 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…
• It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating
• I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with
• 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…
• Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.
• All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.

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