Sue Grafton Quotes
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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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If you're unhappy, change something.
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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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Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear.
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Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view.
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Give yourself time to get better.
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Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.
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I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.
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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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When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.
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My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.
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Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.
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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.
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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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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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People get careless when they're feeling safe.
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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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The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.
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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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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.
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I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
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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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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.