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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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"Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others."
"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."
"Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon."
"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
"Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart."
"Think innocently. Think intelligently. Think imaginatively. Think inventively."
"First drafts don't have to be perfect. They just have to be written."
"Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience."
"The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process."
"I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults."
Explore more quotes by Sue Grafton
"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."
"I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form."
"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."
"I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since."
"After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with."
"The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved."
"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."
"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."
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