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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
Sue Grafton -
There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
Sue Grafton
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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.
Sue Grafton -
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.
Sue Grafton -
That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
Sue Grafton -
Give yourself time to get better.
Sue Grafton -
After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
Sue Grafton -
Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
Sue Grafton
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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.
Sue Grafton -
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
Sue Grafton -
Poise and indifference so often look the same.
Sue Grafton -
Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.
Sue Grafton -
Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.
Sue Grafton -
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.
Sue Grafton