Sara Paretsky Quotes

I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues. — Sara Paretsky

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon. — Sara Paretsky

I love to sing. I'm a soprano. — Sara Paretsky

I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with. — Sara Paretsky

When you're struggling to survive, no one gets to label you a coward, not even you yourself in your private thoughts. — Sara Paretsky

A god who cares more about a little water on the head than my daughter's character is not a deity I want her to spend eternity with. — Sara Paretsky

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework. — Sara Paretsky

All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry. — Sara Paretsky

I guess my ideals died the hardest. It's often that way with the children of immigrants. We need to buy the dream so bad we sometimes can't wake up. — Sara Paretsky

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power. — Sara Paretsky

I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one. — Sara Paretsky

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. — Sara Paretsky

You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country. — Sara Paretsky

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women. — Stieg Larsson

I'm a daydreamer. — Sara Paretsky

Rule number something or other
never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return. — Sara Paretsky

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories. — Sara Paretsky

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. — Sara Paretsky

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses. — Sara Paretsky

Ship," he said absently. "A boat is something you haul aboard a ship. — Sara Paretsky

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

Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home. — Sara Paretsky

I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it. — Sara Paretsky

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write. — Sara Paretsky

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior. — Sara Paretsky

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work. — Sara Paretsky

Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide. — Sara Paretsky

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel. — Sara Paretsky

Write what you care about. — Sara Paretsky

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs. — Sara Paretsky

I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life. — Sara Paretsky

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science. — Sara Paretsky

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11. — Sara Paretsky

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating. — Sara Paretsky

I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre. — Sara Paretsky

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship. — Sara Paretsky

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America. — Sara Paretsky

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated. — Sara Paretsky

Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman. — Sara Paretsky

Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them. — Sara Paretsky

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum. — Sara Paretsky

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book. — Sara Paretsky

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness. — Sara Paretsky

about your actions. You keep me totally in — Sara Paretsky

Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms. — Sara Paretsky