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Sara Paretsky Biography

Sara Paretsky (born June 8, 1947) is an American author of detective fiction, best known for her novels focused on the female protagonist V.I. Warshawski.

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

Ponies, Stories, Telling, Think, Thinking, Ways

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

Hard, Home, Liberty, Overseas, People, Suppressing

And the fury in my community was just staggering. The young priests in the parish were behind the message. The older priests weren't necessarily, but they all followed the orders of the cardinal and read the letter. Every Sunday, 2,000 people came to mass at that parish. The following Sunday, the attendance dropped to 200, and never recovered.

200, Community, Following, Order, People, Sunday

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.

Book, People, Magazines, Reviewed, Among, Advertising

There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their own complete collections, or those who need a computer, or kids who need a safe place to read after school, or moms with toddlers who want their babies to learn to read, can all come together and share in a great community resource.

Baby, Book, Learn, Love, Mom

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

Country, Writing, Long, Work, Ghost

The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.

Able, Beaten, Chicago, News, Shops, Showing Up

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

Girl, Magazine, Magazines, Published, Stories, Story

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming

Chicago, Church, Give, Giving, Side, Trying

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

Arms, Hurt, Hurts, Moving, Painful

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

Months, Nine, Pages, Write, Writing

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.

Pain, Perspective, Joy, Endure

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.

Age, Cure, Fire, Growing Up, Loss, Writing

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.

Glasses, Keys, Life, Look, Looking

I began wanting to create a detective who really turned the tables on that image of women, to know that you could have a sex life and not be a bad person. You could have a sex life and still solve your own problems. It was eight years from when I started having the fantasy that I was going to create such a detective to when I actually sat down and came up with V. I. Warshawski. It was a long, slow journey to come to a writing voice and do that character.

Character, Fantasy, Sex, Turned, Wanting, Writing

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.

Absolves, Hope, Responsibility, That One Person, Think, Thinking

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

Cities, People, Privacy, Space, Spaces, Together

When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders urging me to speech. I hear Patrick Henry cry to the Burgsses, 'Is Life so dear, or Peace so sweet, to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?' I hear Sojourner Truth tell me that the hand that rocks the cradle can also rock the boat, and William Lloyd Garrison say, 'I am in earnest, I will not be silenced. '

Book, Library, Lloyd, Past, Sojourner, Sweet

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

Agent, Agents, Book, Relationship, See

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

Attractions, Live, Safe, Side, Sides, Wonderful

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