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
country writing long
I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
book writing everest
I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book
summer new-york children
I had a fantasy as a child that I might be a writer someday. I always thought that meant you went to New York or Paris. But after that intense summer, I never thought that I wanted to live any place but Chicago. It also made me see what the stakes were in the civil rights movement. And it made me see what real hatred was like and the forms that it took. But it also made me understand how powerless ordinary people feel in their lives.
girl magazines firsts
I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11
novel wanted publish
Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel
book want agents
No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship
kings home kids
This was a very progressive group of clergy who foresaw the race riots that were going to take place when Dr. King started helping the local civil rights community push for open housing. They were sort of hoping against hope that we could educate kids in a way that could counter some of the racist messages they were imbibing at home. I don't know whether we did any good, but it changed my life in every single way.
hurt moving arms
Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.
kindness stranger kinder
Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.
different rich more-money
The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.
sunday cities justice
When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I was and what that was like. The Sunday before this particular march, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cody, had required all of his pastors to read a letter in support of open housing and economic justice in every parish in the city.
safe sides wonderful
Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.
mom baby book
There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their own complete collections, or those who need a computer, or kids who need a safe place to read after school, or moms with toddlers who want their babies to learn to read, can all come together and share in a great community resource.
dog puppy feels
When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.