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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
"It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old."
"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please."
"One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them."
"I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds that you're not a policeman or a dangerous criminal, and as a consequence, I've discovered a previously ignored room at the back of the bookstore that's filled with masterpieces I've never heard of."
Explore more quotes by Sue Grafton
"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."
"Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with."
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