Sue Grafton Quotes - Page 3

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• The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like a liquid that you can manipulate at will. In the old days, when I typed, every piece of typing paper was like cast in concrete.

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  Pieces, Paper, Liquid

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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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  Pain, Class, People

  Sue Grafton (1988). “"E" is for Evidence”, p.142, Macmillan

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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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  Luck, Way, Bears

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"H" is for Homicide”, p.76, Macmillan

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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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  Letting Go, Ghost

  Sue Grafton (1996). “"M" is for Malice”, p.280, Macmillan

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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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  Book, Writing, Umpires

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• There are laws for everything except the harm families do.

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  Law, Harm

  Sue Grafton (2011). “D is for Deadbeat”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.

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  Mistake, Men, Silence

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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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  Play, Feelings, Age

  Sue Grafton (1992). “"I" is for Innocent”, p.77, Macmillan

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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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  Moving, Long, Mystery

  Sue Grafton (2001). “P Is for Peril”, p.3, Penguin

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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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  Pain, Hard Work, Writing

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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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  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.

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  Simple, Trying, Ends

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"A" is for Alibi”, p.308, Macmillan

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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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  Stars, Memories, Dark

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"O" is for Outlaw”, p.28, Macmillan

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• Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.

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  Lying, Eye, Elements

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"O" is for Outlaw”, p.76, Macmillan

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• The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.

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  Life Lesson, Lessons, You Like It

  Sue Grafton (2011). “V is for Vengeance”, p.40, Penguin

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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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  Letting Go, Believe, Mean

  Sue Grafton (1996). “"M" is for Malice”, p.280, Macmillan

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• Sometimes being fooled by love is worth the price. At least you know you're alive and capable of feeling, even if all you end up with is chest pain.

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  Pain, Love Is, Feelings

  Sue Grafton (2011). “F is for Fugitive”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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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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  Moving, Guy, Littles

  Sue Grafton (2012). “Kinsey Millhone: First Three Novels”, p.235, Pan Macmillan

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• There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.

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  Men, Sorrow, Sound

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"H" is for Homicide”, p.95, Macmillan

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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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  Loved Ones, Mortality, Fine

  Sue Grafton (2011). “V is for Vengeance”, p.68, Penguin

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• Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

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  Independence, Individuality, Cooperation

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"O" is for Outlaw”, p.30, Macmillan

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• Poise and indifference so often look the same.

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  Confidence, Looks, Indifference

  Sue Grafton (2010). “J is for Judgement”, p.236, Pan Macmillan

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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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  Husband, Children, Pages

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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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  Fall, Decision, Merit

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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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  Summer, Teacher, College

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