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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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Sara Paretsky
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 8
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White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
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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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Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.
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I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
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Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.
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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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I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
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I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
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The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
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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.
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Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.
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I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.
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