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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.

Sue Grafton

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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
Actor
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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People talk about dysfunctional families I've never seen any other kind.
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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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The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.
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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.
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I only get writer's block about once a day.
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If you're unhappy, change something.
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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 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 attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.
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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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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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God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.
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If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.
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It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.
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Give yourself time to get better.
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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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Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
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Poise and indifference so often look the same.
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