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"I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961."
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"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."
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"My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl."
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"I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943."
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"I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!"
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"I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college."
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"Even though college has been hard, I don't want to give up."
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"Basically, right before college I got into the Guinness book for my feet and started to do local commercials and little radio spots, just little things and found I really liked it."
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"I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off."
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"Not only that - college doesn't particularly qualify you for the outside world. he world is changing so fast, and college is not. It should strive to be more in tune with the world."
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"I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years."
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"I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form."
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"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
"I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page."
Family
"I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since."
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
"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
"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."
Life
"If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them."
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