Top 33 Quotes by Sara Paretsky

Write what you care about.

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

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'm a daydreamer.

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel.

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

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

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.