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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
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Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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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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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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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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any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.
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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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Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.
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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 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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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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A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused.
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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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