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It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.
Sue Grafton
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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
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Sue Taylor Grafton
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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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People talk about dysfunctional families I've never seen any other kind.
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You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.
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My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.
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If you're unhappy, change something.
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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 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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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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There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
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You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.
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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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