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Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.
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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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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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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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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People talk about dysfunctional families I've never seen any other kind.
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The struggle is what teaches you.
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You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
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I only get writer's block about once a day.
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I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
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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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In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.
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There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
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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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I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by writing, whether the work is going well or I'm stuck in the hell of writer's block, which I'm happy to report only occurs about once a day.
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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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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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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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We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.
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I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.
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