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grief is an illness I can't recover from.

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
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Grief

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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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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.
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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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You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.
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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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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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You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.
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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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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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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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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
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