Sue Grafton Quotes
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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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There are laws for everything except the harm families do.
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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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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
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Give yourself time to get better.
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The Jungian therapist taught me the difference between the ego and the shadow. I realized I'd been so busy being a good girl that I'd completely detached from my shadow. It's something we all have, and it's where all the creative juices are.
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Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
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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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What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?
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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
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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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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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Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.
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People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.
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That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.