Sue Grafton Quotes
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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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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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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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There are days when none of us can bear it, but the good comes around again. Happiness is seasonal, like anything else. Wait it out. There are people who love you. People who can help.
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I figure guys are like Whitman's Samplers. I like to take a little bite out of each and then move on before the whole box gets stale.
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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.
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Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.
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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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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
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I made the rules I figured I could be the one to break them. I thought I would write about xenophobia, a hatred of foreigners. After I stated writing the story there was not a foreigner to be had. I did not want to just stick one in there so I could get a title out of it since it seemed like cheating. I never figured out how I could get out of this dilemma so I just called it X and weaved X traits into the story.
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To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.
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Who knows what part we play in other people's dreams?
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If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.
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You never know which people will affect your life.
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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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Dream big but think small.
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Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we're all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily. Life is only ours on loan.
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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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People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we're afflicted with such a horror of aging that we've halted the process psychically.
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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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School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page.
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I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
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I love being single. It's almost like being rich.