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" Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats. "
Sue Grafton
Execution
Easy
Goats
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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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" 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'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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" I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities. "
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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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