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Sue Grafton

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

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

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"Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can."
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"Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats."
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"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."
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"After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with."
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"I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities."
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"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."
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"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."
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