272 Quotes by Sue Grafton

Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know.

People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

Dream big but think small.

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.

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

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.

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.