"Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can."

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"Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can."

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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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"I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip."

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"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."

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"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."

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"If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them."

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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."

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

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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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"After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with."

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