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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.

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
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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 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 only get writer's block about once a day.
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Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.
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Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.
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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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People talk about dysfunctional families I've never seen any other kind.
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Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view.
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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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The Jungian therapist taught me the difference between the ego and the shadow. I realized I'd been so busy being a good girl that I'd completely detached from my shadow. It's something we all have, and it's where all the creative juices are.
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Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.
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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.
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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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Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
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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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You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
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If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
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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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