“Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.” WorldHeartTwoRememberThreeAsksNamesEgoDoctorsSmallestSurgeons Book:Windy City Blues Source: Windy City Blues
“The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.” IfsWorldShouldLittlesAbleNewsDestructionSeriesDecadesAround The WorldRestaurantsVisibleShopsChicagoVietnamBeatenShowing UpLebanon Book:Killing Orders Source: Killing Orders
“Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice.” WorldGovernmentOrderDifficultVoiceSilenceVisionJourneyMovementSpeechCensorshipInteriorsOutrageOutside WorldDifficult Journeys Book:Writing in an Age of Silence Source: Writing in an Age of Silence
“When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders urging me to speech. I hear Patrick Henry cry to the Burgsses, 'Is Life so dear, or Peace so sweet, to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?' I hear Sojourner Truth tell me that the hand that rocks the cradle can also rock the boat, and William Lloyd Garrison say, 'I am in earnest, I will not be silenced.'” WorldFeelsBookHandsPastRocksCrySweetSpeechSlaveryLibraryDearGhostShouldersBoatChainsEarnestCradleSojourners Author:Sara Paretsky
“I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.” WorldWritingYearsFoundWhiteCrimeMarketingFinancialBackgroundsManagersCollarsInvaluableWhite CollarWhite Collar Crime Author:Sara Paretsky
