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If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.

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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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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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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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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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It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating
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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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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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No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship
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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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White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
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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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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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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.
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Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.
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The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
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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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All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.
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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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Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.
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I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
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