Sara Paretsky Quotes

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.

Sara Paretsky

• World
• Vision
• Journey
• Silence
• Censorship

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • World
  • Live
  • Fools

• Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Men
  • Doing
  • Ambition

• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Feet
  • Swimming
  • Bricks

• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Me

• Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Together
  • Faith

• We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Take
  • Credit
  • Talents

• I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Character
  • Think
  • Hate

• You can't always understand if someone's into you or not, so you should never really pursue something too far without gauging that first.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Always
  • Never
  • Understand

• Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Years
  • Difference
  • Holocaust

• I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

  

  Jack London
  • Book
  • Purpose
  • Beauty

• I'm no different than any other human being. I play music for a living, and we're very blessed.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Different
  • Blessed

• They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Eyes
  • Better
  • Order

• It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • True
  • Government
  • Best

• If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Better
  • Roommates

• In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.

  

  Ben Katchor
  • World
  • Long
  • America

• I feel like I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, which is both settling and terrifying. The roller coaster is going, and there is no jumping off at this point unless I just go nuclear. It's a really interesting part of the whole journey.

  

  Jay Ellis
  • Interesting
  • Journey

• With my projects, I really like the extreme high-tech stuff, but I also like the other end, the acoustic things. So it seems like those meet on an iPad, where you make shapes but the sounds coming out of it are really acoustic.

  

  Bjork
  • High

• You will see us growing the business organically as hard as we can, but equally keeping our minds open as to whether we can grow inorganically as well.

  

  Arun Sarin
  • Business
  • Grow
  • Minds

• 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.

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • World
  • Vision
  • Journey