Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is. Sue Grafton More Quotes by Sue Grafton More Quotes From Sue Grafton Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for approval ... Learn to evaluate your own work with a dispassionate eye ... the lessons you acquire will be all the more valuable because you've mastered your craft from within. Sue Grafton eye self writing My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it. Sue Grafton fool reader jobs Writing is a process and you must trust the process! Fear and anxiety are part of that process along with the enthusaism and the good days and the joy and the passion and the great hopes you have for a book. But when you run into problems, when you get stuck or scared, you must trust that that is part of how a book comes to pass, and what you need to do is get very still and quiet because Self will tell you how to get out of a hole you've dug for yourself. Sue Grafton passion running book 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. Sue Grafton creative-juices girl writing Dream big but think small. Sue Grafton bigs dream thinking He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse? Sue Grafton character men two Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear. Sue Grafton pain hard-work writing Give yourself time to get better. Sue Grafton get-better writing giving I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form. Sue Grafton careers writing years Grade school was perilous. ... I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. Sue Grafton scary kids school School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page. Sue Grafton healing book school Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar. Sue Grafton lawyer eye blue There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess. Sue Grafton mess So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed. Sue Grafton stars dark memories Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them. Sue Grafton ghost letting-go Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water. Sue Grafton space grief grieving My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I didn't know how to fight, so I'd lie awake at night and think of ways to kill him. But I knew I'd get caught, so I decided to put it in a book and get paid for it! I always think it's odd that a whole career came out of that homicidal impulse. Sue Grafton husband book lying 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. Sue Grafton risk focus writing Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone) Sue Grafton lonely men people After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with. Sue Grafton apology tired years
