Sue Grafton

“I’m not cute at all. I’m a very cranky person.”

— Sue Grafton

“I like difficulty. It's what makes my job fun.”

— Sue Grafton

Dream big but think small.

— Sue Grafton

People get careless when they're feeling safe.

— Sue Grafton

“If love is what injures us, how can we heal?”

— Sue Grafton

“I like my life as it is.”

— Sue Grafton

“You can't go back to something once it's dead.”

— Sue Grafton

“Things can fool you sometimes.”

— Sue Grafton

“Infidelity reduces and diminishes, leaving nothing where you once had a sense of self-worth.”

— Sue Grafton

“I don't know what is love about and I'm not sure I believe in it anyway.”

— Sue Grafton

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

— Sue Grafton

“Life is simple. You're the one making things complex.”

— Sue Grafton

My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me…

— Sue Grafton

“Being rule governed, I operate in a world filled with imaginary restraints.”

— Sue Grafton

Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water.

— Sue Grafton

There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.

— Sue Grafton

Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes…

— Sue Grafton

“I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really…

— Sue Grafton

It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge…

— Sue Grafton

I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big…

— Sue Grafton

“Fifty percent of the local citizens are sympathetic and the other fifty are pissed as hell. Does the problem get solved? No,…

— Sue Grafton

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

— Sue Grafton

“I've never been a big fan of exercise. I just can't think of any other way to feel good." Kinsey Milhone”

— Sue Grafton

“I showered and shampooed. I even shaved the requisite legs and armpits just in case I fell in a swoon and one…

— Sue Grafton

People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a…

— Sue Grafton

“I made a stop, ducking into the supermarket to pick up milk, Diet Pepsi, bread, eggs, and toilet paper. I was into…

— Sue Grafton

The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like…

— Sue Grafton

“The dead are mute, but the living still have voice with which to protest their innocence. Often their objections are noisy and…

— Sue Grafton

The Jungian therapist taught me the difference between the ego and the shadow. I realized I'd been so busy being a good…

— Sue Grafton

“Personally I don’t endorse the notion of mortality. It’s fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and…

— Sue Grafton

“...and that touched off something else...old sorrows, good friends gone down into the earth. Sometimes I picture death as a wide stone…

— Sue Grafton

Grade school was perilous. ... I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for…

— Sue Grafton

I made the rules I figured I could be the one to break them. I thought I would write about xenophobia, a…

— Sue Grafton

“You know what they say about living well as the best revenge. I did well because it was the one defense I…

— Sue Grafton

“I think (if I can make a judgement about writers coming into the business), I feel everybody is in a horrific hurry…

— Sue Grafton

“I wish life could be edited as deftly as prose. It would be nice to go back and write a better story,…

— Sue Grafton

Happiness is seasonal, like anything else

— Sue Grafton

I only get writer's block about once a day.

— Sue Grafton

grief is an illness I can't recover from.

— Sue Grafton

Poise and indifference so often look the same.

— Sue Grafton