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'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Family
  • Book

• 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

• Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Book
  • Should
  • Vices

• Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Okay

• Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Past
  • Present
  • Mankind

• Authoritarianism is something authoritarian followers and authoritarian leaders cook up along themselves. It happens when the followers submit too much to the leaders, trust them too much, and give them too much leeway to do whatever they want--which is often something undemocratic, tyrannical and brutal.

  

  Bob Altemeyer
  • Leaders
  • Authoritarianism
  • Tyrannical

• 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