Quotes from Sue Grafton

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

To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.

There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.

I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

There's only so much room at the top of the heap. The rest of us are fill dirt.

Happiness is seasonal, like anything else

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

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.

I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.

When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

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

The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.

You never know which people will affect your life.

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 try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.

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.

You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.

Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we're all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily. Life is only ours on loan.

Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.

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

At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.