Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretskyis an American author of detective fiction, best known for her novels focused on the female protagonist V.I. Warshawski...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth8 June 1947
CountryUnited States of America
american-author chicago community degree finished loved moved service spent summer work
I had spent a summer in Chicago doing community service work and loved the city, so when I finished my undergraduate degree I moved there permanently.
dog puppy feels
When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.
safe sides wonderful
Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.
different rich more-money
The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.
kindness stranger kinder
Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.
novel wanted publish
Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel
pain perspective joy
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.
news vietnam world
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.
writing care
Write what you care about.
lying believe stories
I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.
numbers return something-better
Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.
good-luck lucky born
If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.
white america crime
White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
crime-novels favourite genre
The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.