Sue Grafton Quotes About Character

• A 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.

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  Interview with Elise Cooper, crimespreemag.com. August 21, 2015.

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• Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view.

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  Sue Grafton (1992). “"I" is for Innocent”, p.208, Macmillan

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• He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

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  Sue Grafton (2009). “S is for Silence”, p.168, Pan Macmillan

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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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