Sue Grafton Quotes
The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like a liquid that you can manipulate at will. In the old days, when I typed, every piece of typing paper was like cast in concrete.
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I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
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I think you start hitting home runs, and you start getting caught up in seeing how far you can hit them. They're fun, but you really only have to hit them a foot over the fence. They all count the same.
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The neighbors could be as mad as they want, but I'm not running a business at the house. It's just a location. It will never get me out of here, because I don't have offices set up at my house, and that's what the township thinks.
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I love what Drake does, but I don't want to be called the Drake of country.
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I love DKNY. I love her sweaters because I can take them and just wear nothing underneath and just wrap them.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on their own on Christmas Day.
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I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction.
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
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I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power.
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I'm always aware that I risk being taken for a neurasthenic prima donna when I explain to someone who wants 'just a little' of my time that five minutes of the wrong kind of distraction can ruin a working day.
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He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.
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Anything you can settle with money is cheap.
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Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs to feel profound.
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When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
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There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.
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To look into the eyes of a cannibal. I turn away at the thought.
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If you're both single and available, go for it. But be impeccable with your behavior and your work. You're going to be under more scrutiny in this relationship than you would be if you were dating someone you didn't work with.
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The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like a liquid that you can manipulate at will. In the old days, when I typed, every piece of typing paper was like cast in concrete.
