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" If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself. "

Laurell K. Hamilton

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" I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others. "

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" I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens. "

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" I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will. "

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" My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people. "

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" What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why. "

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" I guess, what I'm saying is that when I've been this surprised by my own characters and world, all bets are off. "

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" Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write. "

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" I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print. "

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" Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own. "

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" Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book. "

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" I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write. "

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