Sue Grafton Quotes
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Personally, I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones.
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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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Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.
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There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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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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If you're unhappy, change something.
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There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.
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Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
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Smile. It gives your face something to do.
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Grade school was perilous. ... I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both.
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The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.
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There's really no such thing as an 'ex-cop' or a cop who's 'off-duty' or 'retired.' Once trained, once indoctrinated, a cop is always alert, assessing reality in terms of its potential for illegal acts.
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I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to the end result. I don't think you write one book and get anywhere. I think you write five books and then maybe you are finally on the right path.
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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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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.
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Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.
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Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.
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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." "I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly. "Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.
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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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I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.