Sue Grafton Quotes
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
Quotes to Explore
-
I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
-
Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
-
I just want to sit in my room and write books.
-
All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
-
Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
-
In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
-
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
-
I'm not cynical.
-
As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
-
I think that designers and architects need to educate the people who don't quite know what they do and make a strong case for why it's valuable and why it changes the game. I think waiting for people to come around to it just won't do.
-
I bring a copy of 'Dracula' with me wherever I go, the book. It's my favorite book in the world, it's absolutely incredible. My great-great grandfather was the guy who printed the first edition, so he's the first person to ever put 'Dracula' on the written page.
-
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
-
I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.
-
My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did those.
-
I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
-
We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
-
I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.
-
Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged.
-
I was trying to write a straightforward book of sociological analysis, or at least cultural criticism, and I failed.
-
Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.
-
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
-
With all of the people in Cuba who I met - many of them hugely heroic figures - I found learning about their complexity and richness and contradictions just really fascinating, and it was fulfilling to be able to offer a different side to them, to be able to have some kind of unique takeaway from the official narrative.
-
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
