Sara Paretsky Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

  Sara Paretsky

  Growing Up, Writing, Loss

  Sara Paretsky (2008). “Bleeding Kansas”, p.240, Penguin

• Write what you care about.

  Sara Paretsky

  Writing, Care

• 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

• 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

• 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

  Writing, Years, White

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

  Sara Paretsky

  Country, Writing, Long

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

  Sara Paretsky

  Book, Writing, Hiking

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

  Sara Paretsky

  Writing, Months, Pages

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

  Sara Paretsky

  Writing, Thinking, Panic

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