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My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.

Sue Grafton

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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
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I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to the end result. I don't think you write one book and get anywhere. I think you write five books and then maybe you are finally on the right path.
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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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Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
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There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
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If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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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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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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After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
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All of us are subjected to somebody else's power at some point. So once in a while you kiss ass. So what? Either you make your peace with that early, or you end up living your life as a crank and a misfit.
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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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What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?
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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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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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Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.
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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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The Jungian therapist taught me the difference between the ego and the shadow. I realized I'd been so busy being a good girl that I'd completely detached from my shadow. It's something we all have, and it's where all the creative juices are.
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In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.
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My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.
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If you're unhappy, change something.
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