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Nancy Pickard Biography

Nancy Pickard (born September 19, 1945 in Kansas City, Missouri) is a US crime novelist. She has won five Macavity Awards, four Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, and a Shamus Award. She is the only author to win all four awards. She also served on the board of directors of the Mystery Writers of America. She received a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri and began writing when she was 35 years old.

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History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

Accuracy, Anyway, Events, History, Lying, Witness

Where there are problems, there are angels hovering about just waiting for us to ask them to help us transform our suffering into blessings. I'm not being religious, I'm telling you the truth as I have experienced it. . . . And I'm not being trendy either. I was talking to angels long before they got fashionable. . . . So maybe you don't believe in angels, that's all right, they don't care. They're not like Tinkerbell, you know, they don't depend on your faith to exist. A lot of people didn't believe the earth was round either, but that didn't make it any flatter.

Angel, Believe, Care, Like, Religious, Suffering

You can have faith in writing itself. That's where to place your faith, in the same way that a pole vaulter places his faith in the laws of physics. He will go up in direct proportion to the strength with which he pushed off, and he will come down every time.

Have Faith, Law, Proportion, Way, Writing

It was at our library that I found Nancy Drew and fell in love with the genre. I've been grateful ever since for those tolerant, book-loving librarians who allowed a child like me to read what I wanted to read.

Book, Children, Genre, Grateful, Like, Read

If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.

Come, Commitment, Dream, Way, Writing

God is a name we give to love.

Giving, God, Love, Name, Names

It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.

Destiny, Fate, Luck, Misfortunes

Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.

New York, Nobody, Stranger, Welcome, York

New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.

Cities, New York, Streets, Vibrated, World, York

New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people.

Ideas, Million, New York, People, Thirteen, Thought