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Writing Quotes by 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 girl that I'd…
- My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I didn't know how…
- I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've…
- Give yourself time to get better.
- I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
- I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to the end result.…
- Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work,…
- Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.
- I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
- I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me,…
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
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- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov