Sara Paretsky Quotes

I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time-you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all I can do is wait for the next book.

Sara Paretsky

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• A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Real
  • Book
  • U.S.

• One half who graduate from college never read another book.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Book
  • College
  • Graduation

• I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Book
  • Bad

• I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Up
  • She
  • Book

• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Mistake

• A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Good
  • Job
  • Book

• You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Children
  • Book
  • Difficult

• For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Home
  • Character
  • Book

• Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.

  

  Val Guest
  • Book
  • Know
  • Bond

• Obviously there's a lot more to a TV show than just a book... I think adaptations are a bit tricky for the screenwriters because they're worried about upsetting the author.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Book
  • Think
  • Author

• For the first ten years after I got out of graduate school, I studied success. I read every book I could get my hands on and took every training I could find, and that allowed me to become an expert in this area. I learned how to create high self-esteem and success in my own life and in the lives of others.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Life
  • School
  • Book

• It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Book

• 'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Book

• Ascetic Christianity called the world evil and left it. Humanity is waiting for a revolutionary Christianity which will call the world evil and change it.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • World
  • Evil
  • Humanity

• A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall.

  

  Anatole Broyard
  • Good
  • Book
  • Wall

• It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
  • Time
  • Waiting
  • Patience

• Even after doing that TV thing, 'Roswell,' I'm still waiting to see my first UFO.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Waiting

• I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way.

  

  M. Ward
  • Book
  • Song
  • Annoyed

• When I sit down and play guitar, I melt into the instrument. I can play for hours by myself. Playing guitar has given me such a wonderful life, and I'm grateful for it.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Life

• Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• I grew up on the bus, or riding my bike, or catching the subway, I've never had a car. In college, any girl I ever dated had a car, too.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Up
  • Girl
  • College

• I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time-you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all I can do is wait for the next book.

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • Book
  • Waiting
  • Wonderful