Sara Paretsky

I love to sing. I'm a soprano.

— Sara Paretsky

Write what you care about.

— Sara Paretsky

I'm a daydreamer.

— Sara Paretsky

“about your actions. You keep me totally in”

— Sara Paretsky

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

— Sara Paretsky

If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.

— Sara Paretsky

I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.

— Sara Paretsky

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.

— Sara Paretsky

Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman.

— Sara Paretsky

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

— Sara Paretsky

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating

— Sara Paretsky

I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.

— Sara Paretsky

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

— Sara Paretsky

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

— Sara Paretsky

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

— Sara Paretsky

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11

— Sara Paretsky

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book

— Sara Paretsky

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

— Sara Paretsky

I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues

— Sara Paretsky

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

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

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

She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience,…

— Sara Paretsky

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

“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

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in…

— Sara Paretsky

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

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

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

When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I…

— Sara Paretsky

The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of…

— Sara Paretsky

These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny.…

— Sara Paretsky

When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders…

— Sara Paretsky

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

I had a fantasy as a child that I might be a writer someday. I always thought that meant you went to…

— Sara Paretsky

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.

— Sara Paretsky

You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country.

— Sara Paretsky

Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.

— Sara Paretsky

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs

— Sara Paretsky

Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.

— Sara Paretsky