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There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
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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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.
Sue Grafton
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.
Sue Grafton
Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)
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Happiness is seasonal, like anything else
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any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.
Sue Grafton
For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance
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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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Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.
Sue Grafton
Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
Sue Grafton
There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
Sue Grafton
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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If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.
Sue Grafton
You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
Sue Grafton
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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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.
Sue Grafton
Poise and indifference so often look the same.
Sue Grafton
People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we're afflicted with such a horror of aging that we've halted the process psychically.
Sue Grafton
If you're unhappy, change something.
Sue Grafton
The struggle is what teaches you.
Sue Grafton
School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page.
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