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 you're unhappy, change something.
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.
You never know which people will affect your life.
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, risk, and fear.
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
Give yourself time to get better.
Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.
After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
There are laws for everything except the harm families do.
People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we're afflicted with such a horror of aging that we've halted the process psychically.
It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.
You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.
People get careless when they're feeling safe.
Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.