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"My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits."
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"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either."
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"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
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"You must not make hasty decisions because they make you do what you would not have done normally."
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"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions."
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"One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice."
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"It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good."
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"See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented."
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"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."
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"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."
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"The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision."
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"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."
Books
"After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with."
Work
"Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can."
Focus
"Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so."
Writing
"My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits."
Decision-Making
"I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form."
Career
"I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks."
Trust
"At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO."
Crime
"Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is."
Movies
"We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying."
Nature
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