It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating — Sara Paretsky Frustrating Copy Share Image
The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power. — Sara Paretsky Different Copy Share Image
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
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
Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior. — Sara Paretsky Animal Copy Share Image
I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half… — Sara Paretsky Eyeglasses Copy Share Image
I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre. — Sara Paretsky Genre 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
I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues — Sara Paretsky Following 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
I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they… — Sara Paretsky Charity Copy Share Image
I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly… — Sara Paretsky Catholic Copy Share Image
The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and… — Sara Paretsky Hope Copy Share Image
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do… — Sara Paretsky Expected Copy Share Image
The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only… — Sara Paretsky Addresses 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
You have to be a ruthless editor of your own prose. Over the years, I've learned that the best way to incorporate… — Sara Paretsky Action Copy Share Image
I guess I don't have a candidate who makes my heart go pitter-patter the way I wish it would. I'm thinking, here's… — Sara Paretsky African american Copy Share Image
The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of… — Sara Paretsky Able Copy Share Image
When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I… — Sara Paretsky Cardinals Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, … Pain and… — Sara Paretsky Adolescence Copy Share Image
While we were walking around, we came to the Catholic church, and we saw that some people had set fire to carpets… — Sara Paretsky Carpet 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 Army Copy Share Image
There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their… — Sara Paretsky After school Copy Share Image
I cannot find words to express the depth of my loss or outrage about what's happening to this country. I don't know… — Sara Paretsky Bill of rights Copy Share Image
I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science. — Sara Paretsky College 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
People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each… — Sara Paretsky Cities Copy Share Image
The day of the march, we were forbidden to go to the march site. The man I worked for, the Presbyterian minister,… — Sara Paretsky Causes Copy Share Image
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. — Sara Paretsky Backgrounds Copy Share Image
In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and… — Sara Paretsky Attention Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to believe that just my words on the page are enough. I ought to be out physically keeping… — Sara Paretsky Abortion Copy Share Image
I began wanting to create a detective who really turned the tables on that image of women, to know that you could… — Sara Paretsky Bad person Copy Share Image
Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago… — Sara Paretsky Ads Copy Share Image
I admire about Hillary: Every time I am going to walk away from her candidacy, I think, she has absorbed more hate… — Sara Paretsky Admire Copy Share Image
Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find… — Sara Paretsky Censorship Copy Share Image
