Sue Grafton

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

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.

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

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that.