272 Quotes by Sue Grafton

Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.

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 also learned to take risks.

No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything.

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 to rise or fall on my own merits.

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

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 completely detached from my shadow. It's something we all have, and it's where all the creative juices are.