Give yourself time to get better. 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 eyeselfwriting 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 foolreaderjobs 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 passionrunningbook 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-juicesgirlwriting Dream big but think small. Sue Grafton bigsdreamthinking He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse? Sue Grafton charactermentwo 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 painhard-workwriting I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form. Sue Grafton careerswritingyears 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 scarykidsschool 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 healingbookschool Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar. Sue Grafton lawyereyeblue 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 starsdarkmemories 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 ghostletting-go Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water. Sue Grafton spacegriefgrieving 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 husbandbooklying 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 riskfocuswriting 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 lonelymenpeople After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with. Sue Grafton apologytiredyears The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like a liquid that you can manipulate at will. In the old days, when I typed, every piece of typing paper was like cast in concrete. Sue Grafton liquidpiecespaper
