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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
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Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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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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Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.
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any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.
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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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Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.
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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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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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Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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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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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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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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That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
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Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
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