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.
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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.
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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.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not cynical.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
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My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did those.
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We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
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I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.
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When writers for adults contemplate Venice, they behold decay, dereliction and death. Thomas Mann, Daphne du Maurier, L. P. Hartley and Salley Vickers have all dispatched hapless protagonists to Italy, where they see Venice - and die.
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I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference.
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In my view, it was no accident that Nelson Mandela was chosen by God to lead the people of South Africa. There are very few people who could be imprisoned, kept away from their family and loved ones, and exit that same prison with such a powerful spirit of love and a desire for reconciliation.
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Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
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Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.
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It is no good wishing for what was not to be.
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If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
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I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
