Sara Paretsky Quotes

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• When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.

  Sara Paretsky

  Dog, Pet, Puppy

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• 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.

  Sara Paretsky

  Mom, Baby, Book

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

  Sara Paretsky

  Men, Underestimate, Ability

  "Fictional character: Victoria "V.I." Warshawski". "V.I. Warshawski", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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

  Sara Paretsky

  Food, Peanut Butter, Comfort

  Sara Paretsky (2005). “Killing Orders”, Signet

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• I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be revealing and even painful to explore your own weakness, but it gives you genuine emotion. Characters in fiction come alive because of the believability of their emotional lives and that is what I strive to create.

  Sara Paretsky

  Believe, Character, Emotional

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

  Sara Paretsky

  Kindness, Stranger, Kinder

  "Total Recall". Book by Sara Paretsky, 2001.

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• If I were elected President, the first thing I would do would be to set up a Department of Restoring the Bill of Rights. I would have 10,000 people working there.

  Sara Paretsky

  People, President, Bill Of Rights

  Source: progressive.org

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

  Sara Paretsky

  Different, Rich, More Money

  Sara Paretsky (2004). “Blacklist”, p.383, Penguin

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• I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or hopefully that we will ever see. If they could keep writing and keep a voice alive, keep people hopeful through their poetry, then I would be ashamed to stop and to give in. It would be really self-indulgent, unacceptable, and inexcusable to walk away from it.

  Sara Paretsky

  Writing, Self, Voice

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice.

  Sara Paretsky

  Journey, Voice, Government

  Sara Paretsky (2007). “Writing in an Age of Silence”, Verso Books

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

  Sara Paretsky

  Safe, Sides, Wonderful

  Sara Paretsky (2011). “Deadlock”, p.190, Dell

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

  Sara Paretsky

  Numbers, Return, Something Better

  Sara Paretsky (2011). “Deadlock”, p.34, Dell

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• 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.

  Sara Paretsky

  Sex, Writing, Character

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• 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

  Home, People, Liberty

  Sara Paretsky (2003). “Blacklist”

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• 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.

  Sara Paretsky

  Responsibility, Thinking, That One Person

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I cannot find words to express the depth of my loss or outrage about what's happening to this country. I don't know if I can find the words for it, but if this country ever recovers, it will not be in my lifetime. If I were elected President, the first thing I would do would be to set up a Department of Restoring the Bill of Rights. I would have 10,000 people working there.

  Sara Paretsky

  Country, Loss, Rights

  Source: www.progressive.org

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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.

  Sara Paretsky

  Thinking, Hands, Interesting

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

  Sara Paretsky

  Good Luck, Lucky, Born

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

  Sara Paretsky

  Lying, Believe, Stories

  Sara Paretsky (1989). “Blood Shot”, Dell

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

  Sara Paretsky

  Relationship, Book, Agents

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• The day of the march, we were forbidden to go to the march site. The man I worked for, the Presbyterian minister, knew we would want to be sort of martyrs for the cause and risk arrest. He didn't want any of that going on. So he made us stay in the neighborhood.

  Sara Paretsky

  Men, Risk, Want

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.

  Sara Paretsky

  Heart, Two, Doctors

  Sara Paretsky (2009). “Windy City Blues”, p.86, Dell

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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.

  Sara Paretsky

  Thinking, Ponies, Stories

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

  Sara Paretsky

  Girl, Stories, Magazines

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• It's hard for me to believe that just my words on the page are enough. I ought to be out physically keeping abortion safe and legal, restoring the Fourth Amendment, getting clean water back into Kentucky since the Bush Administration has allowed strip miners to fill it all up with slag. The list is endless. Bring it down. Make it small. Make it one thing that you can do. It's very hard for me to remember that.

  Sara Paretsky

  Believe, Kentucky, Water

  Source: www.progressive.org

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