Sue Grafton Quotes
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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 was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.
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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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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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A is for Alibi, my first book, was published in 1982. As it happened the next couple of books took place in June and August of that year. Without meaning to I painted myself into a corner. The other issue was the aging process. I did not want my main character to age one year for every book so I slowed the whole process down. This way I could get through all 26 letters of the alphabet without making her 109 years old in 2015. I might end the series in either 1990 or on New Years Eve 1989.
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The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.
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Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
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Poise and indifference so often look the same.
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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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Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
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Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.
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There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.
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There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.