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.
american-author married partner physicist supportive work
I've been married for many years to a physicist who's been about as supportive and encouraging of my work as any partner could be.
american-author attention books help mystery reviewed seven stay trying women writers
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.
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.
sunday order people
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.
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.
summer running religious
Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago put up on college campuses. I was at the University of Kansas, and it's somewhat relevant to my life and work that I'm a Jew. But they weren't doing a religious litmus test. They wanted energetic, civil-rights-committed college students to come help them run some summer programs.
novel wanted publish
Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel
girl magazines firsts
I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11
writing self voice
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.
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.
writing years white
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.