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

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.

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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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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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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 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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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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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 spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

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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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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.

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

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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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Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

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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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