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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.
Sara Paretsky
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Sara Paretsky
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 8
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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 went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
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Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.
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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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Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.
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