Sue Grafton

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

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

— Sue Grafton

#college #english #english major #fine #fine arts

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

#any #because #children #complexities #husband

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

— Sue Grafton

#execution #goats #ideas #really #separates

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

#because #busy #dark #dark side #denying

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

#been #decisions #executive #fall #happiest

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

#first #five #four #i #light

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

#apartment #based #building #character #course

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

#dictate #happy #her #i #improved

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

— Sue Grafton

#blue collar #collar #kinsey #lawyer #never