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For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance

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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
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any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.
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Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.
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Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.
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I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.
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I only get writer's block about once a day.
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After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
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Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
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I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too numerous to list. And I'm not the only one who feels this way. Man has been building cities since the year oughty-ought, just to get away from this stuff.
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You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.
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Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.
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Give yourself time to get better.
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Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them. I don't believe in ghosts, I said, faintly. Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there, she replied.
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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
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I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.
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Who knows what part we play in other people's dreams?
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A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused.
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I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
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I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
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I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.
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