Top 33 Quotes by Sara Paretsky

Write what you care about.

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

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

I'm a daydreamer.

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

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

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

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 realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.

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.