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Sue Grafton Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 24, 1940 - December 28, 2017

Topics

Writing Mystery Career First Years

I feel I have been a part of some very wonderful films, and I have had it in mind when I was on the set, every day, that what I am doing has meaning.

Day I Am Mind Feel Doing Meaning

First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.

House First Assistant Publishing

I don't think anyone disagrees that male and female brains work differently.

Work Think Brains Differently Female

If you create a system that makes the small donors the linchpin of the system in terms of how members of Congress directly raise the funds for their campaigns, then it gives everyday citizens much more of a role - a leveraging role - in the funding of those campaigns.

Small You Create Congress Everyday

I see everything like a movie. I laugh and cry, I smell, touch, see and describe my own experience. I don't care if this sounds strange; I am not the creator - I am only the channel. The story is given to me.

Experience I Am Me Story Care Laugh

Rubio is clearly an open-borders Republican. He is the Chamber of Commerce candidate, the 'more is better' candidate, and the amnesty candidate.

Better More Republican Clearly He

The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.

Result Television Will Prejudice Our

Going from someone playing 15-people venues to performing at the Grammys, it was this giant leap and sort of showed me it was possible with what I wanted to do and the kind of music I wanted to write and artist I want to be to impact a lot of people.

Music People Me Impact Someone Kind

My life at home gives me absolute joy. Having so much time there with the family has just been incredible. My life has changed and I work less, but I was never really one to work too much.

Life Work Family Home Time Joy

Everybody laughed at me when I said I wanted to make a dance video, but when I said, 'What would it look like if Joe Strummer made a dance video?' everybody shut up.

Joshua Ostrander

Dance Me Look Said Shut Up Up

The excitement of wading into 'reality' and just finding out what happens - and then the challenge of selecting those things that happened and shaping them in the editing into a narrative that will have appeal and be engaging - is a great, great thrill.

Great Challenge Reality Finding Will

I gained a first class degree in Physics at Imperial College London in 1968 and did research in solid state physics, but did not pursue meteorology matters until gaining an M.Sc. in astrophysics from Queen Mary College London in 1981, after which I investigated and attempted to construct theories of solar activity.

Queen College Research Physics Class

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