“Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.” ThinkingWritingI CanSometimesPanic Author:Sara Paretsky
“Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.” ThinkingWaySometimesStoriesTricksNew WaysTelling StoriesPonies Author:Sara Paretsky
“I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.” ThinkingHandsInterestingGenrePeterStorytellerMost InterestingStylist Author:Sara Paretsky
“Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned by the current situation that we want somebody that it isn't possible to have. We want someone who definitely looks like the messiah.” ThinkingWantNeedsBelieveLooksSituationRacismDon't BelieveCurrentsSexismBurnedMessiahLatentCurrent Situation Author:Sara Paretsky
“The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you.” ThinkingPersonsResponsibilityToo MuchPersonal ResponsibilityMessiahThat One Person Author:Sara Paretsky
“I admire about Hillary: Every time I am going to walk away from her candidacy, I think, she has absorbed more hate than anyone I can think of over the past twenty years, and she hasn't cracked under it. That's a kind of iron fortitude that maybe we need in the President of the United States. People project on to Hillary because she is a woman. They either hate her for everything they hate about women or they long for her to be everything they want in a woman. It's an impossible burden.” PeopleThinkingKindLongPastHatePresidentImpossibleBurdenAdmireFortitudeOver The Past Author:Sara Paretsky
“I guess I don't have a candidate who makes my heart go pitter-patter the way I wish it would. I'm thinking, here's an African American candidate - yes! And here's a woman candidate - yes! Why can't I get behind either one of them? Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned by the current situation that we want somebody that it isn't possible to have. We want someone who definitely looks like the messiah.” ThinkingBelieveHeartWishSituationMy HeartRacismAfrican AmericanSexism Author:Sara Paretsky
