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Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.

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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
Actor
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Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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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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The struggle is what teaches 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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If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.
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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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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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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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After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
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My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.
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Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.
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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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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
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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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Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
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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 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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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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