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Sara Paretsky
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 8
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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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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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Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.
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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 had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
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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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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 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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All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.
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I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
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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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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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I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.
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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 went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
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Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.
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