Sue Grafton Quotes
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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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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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Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.
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To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.
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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 an illness I can't recover from.
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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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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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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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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 spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
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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 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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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.
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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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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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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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Dream big but think small.
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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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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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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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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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If you're unhappy, change something.