Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return. — Sara Paretsky Mathematics 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… — Sara Paretsky Asks Copy Share Image
I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11 — Sara Paretsky Firsts 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 Came 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… — Sara Paretsky Believe Copy Share Image
The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon. — Sara Paretsky Criminals 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.… — Sara Paretsky Arrogance Copy Share Image
No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship — Sara Paretsky Agents 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… — Sara Paretsky Differences Copy Share Image
Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them. — Sara Paretsky Attraction Copy Share Image
I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues — Sara Paretsky Following Copy Share Image
I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work. — Sara Paretsky Country Copy Share Image
If I were elected President, the first thing I would do would be to set up a Department of Restoring the Bill… — Sara Paretsky Bill of rights Copy Share Image
This was a very progressive group of clergy who foresaw the race riots that were going to take place when Dr. King… — Sara Paretsky Changed Copy Share Image
Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at… — Sara Paretsky Attacking Copy Share Image
Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness. — Sara Paretsky Kinder Copy Share Image
She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience,… — Sara Paretsky Adolescence Copy Share Image
I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be… — Sara Paretsky Believe Copy Share Image
I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside… — Sara Paretsky Conservative Copy Share Image
I was reading Raymond Chandler very much with the feminist eye. In six of his seven novels, it's the woman who presents… — Sara Paretsky Adam Copy Share Image
