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You never know which people will affect your life.

Sue Grafton

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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
Actor
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Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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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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I only get writer's block about once a day.
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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.
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There's really no such thing as an 'ex-cop' or a cop who's 'off-duty' or 'retired.' Once trained, once indoctrinated, a cop is always alert, assessing reality in terms of its potential for illegal acts.
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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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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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Age plays cruel tricks on the human face all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.
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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.
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My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.
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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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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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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
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Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
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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.
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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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