You can’t save others from ...

You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.
 Sue Grafton

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If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
 Sue Grafton
No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything.
 Sue Grafton
Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for approval ... Learn to evaluate your own work with a dispassionate eye ... the lessons you acquire will be all the more valuable because you've mastered your craft from within.
 Sue Grafton
I figure guys are like Whitman's Samplers. I like to take a little bite out of each and then move on before the whole box gets stale.
 Sue Grafton
It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.
 Sue Grafton