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Sue Grafton

"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 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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Akiroq Brost

"The first direction of a prayer: believe that God is able to manage your problem and appeal to Him."

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"Trust that, when you are not holding yourself together so tightly, you will not fall apart. Trust that it is more important to fulfill your authentic desires than listen to your fears. Trust that your intuition is leading you somewhere. Trust that the flow of life contains you, is bigger than you, and will take care of you - if you let it."

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Akiroq Brost

"I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own."

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"The fact that you do not trust your spouse or lover doesn't necessarily mean that they are cheating on you, and the fact that you do doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't."

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"I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick being the right sort of man to fill a post of trust at Miss Havisham's. 'Why of course he is not the right sort of man, Pip,' said my guardian, comfortably satisfied beforehand on the general head, 'because the man who fills the post of trust never is the right sort of man."

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Akiroq Brost

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."

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"He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)"

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Akiroq Brost

"It is worthless and senseless to seek help in Egypt, because true help comes only from theLord, Who created heaven and earth."

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"How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline."I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave.""Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline."Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back."

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Akiroq Brost

"The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race."

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Sue Grafton
"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

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Sue Grafton
"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

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Sue Grafton
"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

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

Creativity

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

Focus

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

Now

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Sue Grafton
"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."

Books

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Sue Grafton
"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."

College

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

Work

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Sue Grafton
"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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