Sue Grafton
Sue Grafton
Sue Taylor Graftonis a contemporary American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the 'alphabet series'featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California. The daughter of detective novelist C. W. Grafton, she has said the strongest influence on her crime novels is author Ross Macdonald. Prior to success with this series, she wrote screenplays for television movies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 April 1940
CountryUnited States of America
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.
When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.
There's really no such thing as an 'ex-cop' or a cop who's 'off-duty' or 'retired.' Once trained, once indoctrinated, a cop is always alert, assessing reality in terms of its potential for illegal acts.
There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.
Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
The struggle is what teaches you.
You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.
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.
My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.
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.
People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.
Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.