Sue Grafton Quotes & Sayings

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

“We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.”

“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.”

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

“I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.”

“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.”

“I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.”

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

“After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.”

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