Quotes by Sara Paretsky

About Sara Paretsky:

Sara Paretsky is an American author of detective fiction, best known for her novels focused on the female protagonist V.I. Warshawski.
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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. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what ...

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The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.

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Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

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

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I live and die with the Chicago Cubs.

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

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

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

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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 more.

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Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

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

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

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White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

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You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country.

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The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

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Write what you care about.

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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 a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming.

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Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

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Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameSara Paretsky
  • Descriptionmodern American author of detective fiction
  • BornJune 8, 1947
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters; Novelist