"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, Care, Focus, Rest

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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."

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"I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure.....he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him...Few can lie to me... I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion."

Karen Marie Moning, American Author

Trust, Love, Empathy, Connection

"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Trust, Men, Idea, Honesty

"Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Trust, Belief, Fidelity, Confidence

"A man in loss is not a man to trust."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Trust, Loss, Man, Relationship

"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Trust, Suspicion

"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

Trust, Beliefs, Body, Consciousness, Mind

"Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust."

James Cash Penney, American Businessman

Trust, Responsibility

"He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Trust, Faith, Belief, Humanity

"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."

Alan Watts, English Philosopher

Trust, Faith, Flow, Water

"If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Trust, Secrecy, Discretion, Awareness

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

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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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"Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know."

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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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"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."

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

Movies, Books, Mind

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

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

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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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