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Sue Grafton

"Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is."

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Donna Grant

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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Donna Grant

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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Donna Grant

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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Donna Grant

"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."

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Donna Grant

"If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'."

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Donna Grant

"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

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Donna Grant

"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."

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Donna Grant

"Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President."

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Donna Grant

"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."

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Donna Grant

"Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A."

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Sue Grafton
"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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Sue Grafton
"Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats."

Creativity

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Sue Grafton
"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."

Books

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Sue Grafton
"After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with."

Work

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

Writing

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Sue Grafton
"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."

Writing

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Sue Grafton
"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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Sue Grafton
"I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities."

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Sue Grafton
"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."

Trust

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Sue Grafton
"Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is."

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