Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sara Paretsky
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 8
Author
Crime Writer
Novelist
Writer
Ames
Iowa
Sarah Paretsky
Sara Paretzky
Sara N. Paretsky
Books
Advertising
Money
Newspapers
Book
Contact
People
Awareness
Reader
Reviewed
Spend
Contacts
Among
Readers
Create
Magazines
More quotes by Sara Paretsky
Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.
Sara Paretsky
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
Sara Paretsky
Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel
Sara Paretsky
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
It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating
Sara Paretsky
Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.
Sara Paretsky
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.
Sara Paretsky
No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship
Sara Paretsky
Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.
Sara Paretsky
I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.
Sara Paretsky
I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
Sara Paretsky
Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.
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 punks were trying to break into my house and I chased them down.
Sara Paretsky
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.
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 can remember the names of the other two.
Sara Paretsky
I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
Sara Paretsky
Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.
Sara Paretsky
I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
Sara Paretsky
If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.
Sara Paretsky
Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.
Sara Paretsky
