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Sara Paretsky Inspirational Quotes (38)

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The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you.
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I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues
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The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.
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Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.
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Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.
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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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White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
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But what I've learned is, when your adrenaline is flowing, you can do a lot. I'm not very physical, but once some punks were trying to break into my house and I chased them down.
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You have to be a ruthless editor of your own prose. Over the years, I've learned that the best way to incorporate research into the narrative is to turn it into action.
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I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.
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I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity.
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Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice.
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I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.
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Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.
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No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship
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Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel
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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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All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.
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Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.
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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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Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.
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I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
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While we were walking around, we came to the Catholic church, and we saw that some people had set fire to carpets and banked them around the rectory, which was made out of wood. They knew every fire truck on the South Side was going to be in the park, that the rectory would just burn to the ground. Our one little act was putting out that fire.
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Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.
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