Top 33 Quotes by Sara Paretsky

You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country.

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

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.

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.

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

I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.

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

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

I love to sing. I'm a soprano.

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.