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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.
Sue Grafton
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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
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Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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Grade school was perilous. ... I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both.
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Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
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You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
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If you're unhappy, change something.
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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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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.
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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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Poise and indifference so often look the same.
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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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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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