Quotes About Sue Grafton

Sue Grafton's 'A Is for Alibi', the 1982 novel that introduced the world to private detective Kinsey Millhone, wasn't seen as the pioneering achievement we now know it to be.

I learned to write crime novels by reading people I hoped to emulate: people like James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh, and Sue Grafton.

I'm well aware that immortality is simply an illusion we carry with us to keep ourselves functional from day to day, but the idea of a murder contract was inconceivable to me.

I don't know much about the Presbyterian faith, but the atmosphere alone was enough to put me off predestination.

Shitting on a mouse is not expressly forbidden under California law.

Good news for me, although even in Texas I don't think impersonating a maid would be classified as a crime.

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