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If you're unhappy, change something.
Sue Grafton
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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
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Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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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.
Sue Grafton
You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
Sue Grafton
All of us are subjected to somebody else's power at some point. So once in a while you kiss ass. So what? Either you make your peace with that early, or you end up living your life as a crank and a misfit.
Sue Grafton
Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
Sue Grafton
Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
Sue Grafton
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.
Sue Grafton
grief is an illness I can't recover from.
Sue Grafton
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.
Sue Grafton
Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
Sue Grafton
Poise and indifference so often look the same.
Sue Grafton
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'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.
Sue Grafton
I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to the end result. I don't think you write one book and get anywhere. I think you write five books and then maybe you are finally on the right path.
Sue Grafton
There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
Sue Grafton
In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.
Sue Grafton
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.
Sue Grafton
I only get writer's block about once a day.
Sue Grafton
I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by writing, whether the work is going well or I'm stuck in the hell of writer's block, which I'm happy to report only occurs about once a day.
Sue Grafton
We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.
Sue Grafton
Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
Sue Grafton