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I always wrote my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11
Sara Paretsky
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Sara Paretsky
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 8
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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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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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Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.
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I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
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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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It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating
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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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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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Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.
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I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time-you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all I can do is wait for the next book.
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