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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.

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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
Actor
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Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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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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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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Who knows what part we play in other people's dreams?
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Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
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People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we're afflicted with such a horror of aging that we've halted the process psychically.
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You never know which people will affect your life.
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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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Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
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I only get writer's block about once a day.
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There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was Edward Gorey who wrote the book The Gashlycrumb Tinies, about the untimely death of 26 Victorian children, each representing a letter of the alphabet. I thought what a great way to link the titles.
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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.
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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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You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
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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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If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
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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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Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)
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Happiness is seasonal, like anything else
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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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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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