Sue Grafton Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.

  Sue Grafton

  Happiness, Grief, Unhappy Childhood

• 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.

  Sue Grafton

  New Year, Couple, Book

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

• Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.

  Sue Grafton

  Play, Feelings, Age

  Sue Grafton (1992). “"I" is for Innocent”, p.77, Macmillan

• People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we're afflicted with such a horror of aging that we've halted the process psychically.

  Sue Grafton

  Country, Passion, Exercise

  Sue Grafton (1988). “"E" is for Evidence”, p.92, Macmillan

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