Sue Grafton Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know.”

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

“I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.”

“Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.”

“I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.”

“Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.”

“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.”