Sue Grafton Quotes

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.
Sue Grafton

Nature, Busy, Passion

If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.
Sue Grafton

Men, Wonderful, High

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
Sue Grafton

Work, Tired, After

Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.
Sue Grafton

Movies, Mind, She

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.
Sue Grafton

Focus, Book, Writing

Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know.
Sue Grafton

Real, Anyone, Though

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
Sue Grafton

Writing, Career, Mystery

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

Writing, Since, Started

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
Sue Grafton

College, Fine, English

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.
Sue Grafton

Easy, Ideas, Sheep

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.
Sue Grafton

She, Lawyer, Blue

At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO.
Sue Grafton

Words, Down, Through

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.
Sue Grafton

College, Year, State

I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.
Sue Grafton

Book, Different, Hell

I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.
Sue Grafton

Trust, Care, Focus

I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.
Sue Grafton

Her, Getting, While

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.
Sue Grafton

Husband, Children, Impossible

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.
Sue Grafton

Decisions, Making, Fall

Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.
Sue Grafton

Two, Light, Three

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.
Sue Grafton

Life, Character, Live

The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved.
Sue Grafton

Nature, Truth, Happy

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Nationality: American

Born: April 24, 1940

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