Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
Sue GraftonThat's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
Sue GraftonTrain yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.
Sue GraftonAll of us are subjected to somebody else's power at some point. So once in a while you kiss ass. So what? Either you make your peace with that early, or you end up living your life as a crank and a misfit.
Sue GraftonA is for Alibi, my first book, was published in 1982. As it happened the next couple of books took place in June and August of that year. Without meaning to I painted myself into a corner. The other issue was the aging process. I did not want my main character to age one year for every book so I slowed the whole process down. This way I could get through all 26 letters of the alphabet without making her 109 years old in 2015. I might end the series in either 1990 or on New Years Eve 1989.
Sue Grafton