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Sue Grafton

American

April 24, 1940

Novelist

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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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Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know.

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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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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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The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved.

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My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

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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.

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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.

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