272 Quotes by 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 world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.

Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.

There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.

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

It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.

Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.

In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.

Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.

Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.