Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain,… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
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… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Writing is a process and you must trust the process! Fear and anxiety are part of that process along with the enthusaism… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I made the rules I figured I could be the one to break them. I thought I would write about xenophobia, a… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“I wish life could be edited as deftly as prose. It would be nice to go back and write a better story,… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“I love being by myself. I love it when it works, and I can't for the life of me figure out how… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“It's unfortunate that we don't have a mentor system anymore. In the Renaissance, artists were apprentices to masters. You learn to do… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“I think (if I can make a judgement about writers coming into the business), I feel everybody is in a horrific hurry… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“Life is hard. Life hurts. So what? You tough it out. You get through and then you'll feel good again.” — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“I can just about promise you Philip Marlowe was never as dainty as I.” — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“You can always push people around, but it's not a good idea. Better to let them volunteer information for reasons of their own. You… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to have faith in your fellow man when you’re forced to look at some of his handiwork.” — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“I wondered if I'd ever be nice enough to volunteer for anything. I was hoping not.” — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
