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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.
Sara Paretsky
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.
Sara Paretsky
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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I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
Sara Paretsky
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.
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
I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
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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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I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.
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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
It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating
Sara Paretsky
I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.
Sara Paretsky
She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe.
Sara Paretsky
Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel
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Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.
Sara Paretsky
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.
Sara Paretsky
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 we can endure, and also that nothing endures.
Sara Paretsky
When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I was and what that was like. The Sunday before this particular march, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cody, had required all of his pastors to read a letter in support of open housing and economic justice in every parish in the city.
Sara Paretsky
Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.
Sara Paretsky
Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.
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