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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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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
Actor
Author
Journalist
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Screenwriter
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Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
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I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.
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If you're unhappy, change something.
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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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People talk about dysfunctional families I've never seen any other kind.
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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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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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Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them. I don't believe in ghosts, I said, faintly. Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there, she replied.
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The struggle is what teaches you.
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