Sue Grafton

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

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

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

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done by Louis the Fifteenth.