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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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Crime Writer
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Iowa
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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'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.
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The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
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No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship
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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
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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.
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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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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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Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.
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I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
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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.
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White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
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Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.
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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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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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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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Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.
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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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I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.
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