
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