Sue Grafton Quotes

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  • For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first" Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance

  • 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.

    Passion  
  • You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.

    Sue Grafton (2007). “T is for Trespass: A Kinsey Millhone Novel”, p.94, Penguin
  • 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.

  • Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.

    Sue Grafton (2010). “"A" is for Alibi”, p.8, Macmillan
  • I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too numerous to list. And I'm not the only one who feels this way. Man has been building cities since the year oughty-ought, just to get away from this stuff.

    Sue Grafton (2011). “F is for Fugitive”, p.140, Pan Macmillan
  • Who knows what part we play in other people's dreams?

    Play  
    Sue Grafton (1993). “"J" is for Judgment”, p.172, Macmillan
  • People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.

    Sue Grafton (2011). “F is for Fugitive”, p.68, Pan Macmillan
  • School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page.

    Book  
    Sue Grafton (2007). “T is for Trespass: A Kinsey Millhone Novel”, p.202, Penguin
  • 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.

    Sue Grafton (2011). “F is for Fugitive”, p.10, Pan Macmillan
  • Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.

  • I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.

  • Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.

    Sue Grafton (2011). “D is for Deadbeat”, p.124, Pan Macmillan
  • The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

    Sue Grafton (1993). “"J" is for Judgment”, p.1, Macmillan
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    New Year   Couple   Book  
    Interview with Elise Cooper, crimespreemag.com. August 21, 2015.
  • When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.

    Sue Grafton (2010). “"O" is for Outlaw”, p.180, Macmillan
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Sue Grafton (1988). “"E" is for Evidence”, p.92, Macmillan
  • There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.

    Sue Grafton (2010). “"H" is for Homicide”, p.95, Macmillan
  • If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.

    Sue Grafton (2009). “U is for Undertow: A Kinsey Millhone Novel”, p.19, Penguin
  • Writing is a process and you must trust the process! Fear and anxiety are part of that process along with the enthusaism and the good days and the joy and the passion and the great hopes you have for a book. But when you run into problems, when you get stuck or scared, you must trust that that is part of how a book comes to pass, and what you need to do is get very still and quiet because Self will tell you how to get out of a hole you've dug for yourself.

    Book   Passion  
  • There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was Edward Gorey who wrote the book The Gashlycrumb Tinies, about the untimely death of 26 Victorian children, each representing a letter of the alphabet. I thought what a great way to link the titles.

    Book  
    Interview with Elise Cooper, crimespreemag.com. August 21, 2015.
  • Poise and indifference so often look the same.

    Sue Grafton (2010). “J is for Judgement”, p.236, Pan Macmillan
  • To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.

  • Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.

    Sue Grafton (1992). “"I" is for Innocent”, p.208, Macmillan
  • 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.

  • Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a house fire destroys not only our worldly goods, but our attachment to what's gone.

    Sue Grafton (2011). “V is for Vengeance”, p.196, Pan Macmillan
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