Sue Grafton Quotes
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Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.
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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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My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.
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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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You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
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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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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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In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.
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If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.
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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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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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Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
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Grief is as contagious as a yawn.
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Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.
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I read the paper every day. There are certain subjects that will catch my attention. I have an entire file of articles. Of course I make up the story, especially since most criminals are not very smart and fictional crime must be clever. I have to make sure the story I am telling is interesting and realistic. In this book I went on line and found out the manners of codes. I thought it interesting to use them as a jumping off point.
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What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?
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any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.
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Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.
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Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.
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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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I love being single. It's almost like being rich.
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I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.
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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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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.