Quotes from Sara Paretsky

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

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

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

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.

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

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.

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

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with.

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.

You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the 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.

I'm a daydreamer.

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

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.

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

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