Sue Grafton Quotes
My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series I did a lot of studying before I wrote the first book. I learned police procedure, the California criminal law, and many areas outside my expertise.
Quotes to Explore
-
The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
-
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
-
I feel like we all have our skeletons.
-
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
-
The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
-
I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
-
I am just one human being.
-
There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
-
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
-
I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.
-
Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
-
I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
-
Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
-
Before I turned vegetarian, I used to often cook seafood or my favourite breakfast of eggs and bacon. Now, I love making pulao or rice with lots of spices and vegetables.
-
The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.
-
When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.
-
When I sit down and design, it's shoes that always appear.
-
In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not return their money. However, I gave money back to any investor who requested it. It was the bottom of the market and a pretty tough time.
-
Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.
-
I just start my day really early. Everything happens in the morning time. Writing. Just everything. I can't - I don't know how to work late.
-
Some have said that we should not have this debate. I disagree.
-
You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.
-
Every director is themselves; they're not playing a part.
-
My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series I did a lot of studying before I wrote the first book. I learned police procedure, the California criminal law, and many areas outside my expertise.
