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I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues
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Sara Paretsky
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 8
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If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.
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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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Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.
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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 always wrote my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11
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Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.
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I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
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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.
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The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
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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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