Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman. — Sara Paretsky Ability Copy Share Image
Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness. — Sara Paretsky Kinder Copy Share Image
I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book — Sara Paretsky Book 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
I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11 — Sara Paretsky Firsts Copy Share Image
The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon. — Sara Paretsky Crime Copy Share Image
I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it. — Sara Paretsky Believe Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories. — Sara Paretsky New ways Copy Share Image
Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them. — Sara Paretsky Attraction Copy Share Image
All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry. — Sara Paretsky Chips 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 Astonishing Copy Share Image
I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time-you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all… — Sara Paretsky Book Copy Share Image
“of Place and the rest of her Hollywood oeuvre. Ferring had won two Emmys for Lakeview, the Jeffersons look-alike series she’d starred… — Sara Paretsky President clinton 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
But what I've learned is, when your adrenaline is flowing, you can do a lot. I'm not very physical, but once some… — Sara Paretsky Adrenaline 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
Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at… — Sara Paretsky Advertising 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 1950s 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
When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders… — Sara Paretsky Boat 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
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
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
And the fury in my community was just staggering. The young priests in the parish were behind the message. The older priests… — Sara Paretsky Attendance Copy Share Image
I had a fantasy as a child that I might be a writer someday. I always thought that meant you went to… — Sara Paretsky Chicago Copy Share Image
I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or… — Sara Paretsky Alive Copy Share Image
White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America. — Sara Paretsky America Copy Share Image
I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with — Sara Paretsky Found Copy Share Image
