Sue Grafton Quotes
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Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.
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You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.
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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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There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was Edward Gorey who wrote the book The Gashlycrumb Tinies, about the untimely death of 26 Victorian children, each representing a letter of the alphabet. I thought what a great way to link the titles.
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Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.
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If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.
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You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
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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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Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.
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I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by writing, whether the work is going well or I'm stuck in the hell of writer's block, which I'm happy to report only occurs about once a day.
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You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.
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Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.
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You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.
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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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any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.
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The memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.
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Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
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What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?
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Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)
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It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.
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Grief is as contagious as a yawn.
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I love being single. It's almost like being rich.
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Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a house fire destroys not only our worldly goods, but our attachment to what's gone.
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So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.