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

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

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

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

Sara Paretsky quotes: I love to sing. I'm a soprano.

I love to sing. I'm a soprano.

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

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

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

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

Sara Paretsky quotes: 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.

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

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

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

Sara Paretsky quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.

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

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

I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.

Sara Paretsky quotes: 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.

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 quotes: You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country.

You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.

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

Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.

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

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

Sara Paretsky quotes: Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

Sara Paretsky quotes: about your actions. You keep me totally in

about your actions. You keep me totally in

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

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

Sara Paretsky quotes: I'm a daydreamer.

I'm a daydreamer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sara Paretsky quotes: I live and die with the Chicago Cubs.

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs.

Sara Paretsky quotes: Write what you care about.

Write what you care about.

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

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

Sara Paretsky quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.

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

Sara Paretsky quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

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

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

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

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

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

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

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

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

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

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

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