American - Novelist | April 24, 1940 - December 28, 2017
Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.
Sue Grafton
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If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
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Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.
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Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know.
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I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
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I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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