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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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Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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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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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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There are days when none of us can bear it, but the good comes around again. Happiness is seasonal, like anything else. Wait it out. There are people who love you. People who can help.
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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to the end result. I don't think you write one book and get anywhere. I think you write five books and then maybe you are finally on the right path.
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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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Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.
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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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Who knows what part we play in other people's dreams?
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