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Authors
Sara Paretsky
American
Author
About the author
I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#Love
I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#Time
#Life
#Home
#Conservative
#Girls
#Waste
I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#Time
#Work
#Country
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.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#Friend
#Church
#Chicago
#Charity
I live and die with the Chicago Cubs.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#Chicago
I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#Thought
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,
American
Author
#Years
#World
#Experience
#Writing
#Marketing
#Financial
#Manager
I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#Time
#Life
#Thought
I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#Science
#College
#University
The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#Justice
#Possibility
You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#Country
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,
American
Author
#Life
White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#Crime
#America
I'm a daydreamer.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#Crime
The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#America
#Literary
#Name
Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#Now
#Crime
#Sisters
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,
American
Author
#People
#Open
#Cities
#Privacy
No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
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,
American
Author
#Home
#Parents
#Intellectuals
#Liberal
#Housework
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.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#People
#Money
#Books
#Advertising
#Newspapers
#Awareness
It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#Months
In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#Time
#Men
#Writers
#Books
#Trying
#Help
#Attention
#Women
#Mystery
#Libraries
I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#Hope
I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#Life
Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#Country
#Magic
#Comedy
#Chicago
#Realism
Write what you care about.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#Care
Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#First
I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#American
#First
Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel.
Sara Paretsky,
American
Author
#Time