American - Author | June 8, 1947 -
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.
Sara Paretsky
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Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.
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The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.
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I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
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Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.
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I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.
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I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
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I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.
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I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
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My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
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No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship.
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Write what you care about.
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