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
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.
grandmother proud
I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.
sibling home parent
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
inspirational funny graduation
I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
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.
thinking stories way
Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.
crime-novels favourite genre
The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.
white america crime
White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
responsibility thinking too-much
The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you.
book jealous waiting
I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time-you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all I can do is wait for the next book.
thinking hands interesting
I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.
good-luck lucky born
If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.
believe thinking racism
Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned by the current situation that we want somebody that it isn't possible to have. We want someone who definitely looks like the messiah.
numbers return something-better
Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.