Sue Grafton Quotes
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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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Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.
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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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What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?
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Who knows what part we play in other people's dreams?
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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
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To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.
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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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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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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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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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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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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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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 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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I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.
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Dream big but think small.
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You never know which people will affect your life.
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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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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 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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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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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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If you're unhappy, change something.