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Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.

Sue Grafton

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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
Actor
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
Caution
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Dead
Differences
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Cautious

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You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
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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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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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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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Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
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Age plays cruel tricks on the human face all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.
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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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People talk about dysfunctional families I've never seen any other kind.
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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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Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.
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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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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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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 you're unhappy, change something.
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There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
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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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