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" I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Fond
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" I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else. "
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" If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself. "
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" I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't. "
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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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" If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder. "
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" When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I? "
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" Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes. "
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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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Lost
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" You give the reader a sense of a full meal. "
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" I am not a morning person. "
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" If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too. "
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" What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you. "
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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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Why
" I wasn't like most girls. "
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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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Horror
Words
" You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Fan
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" The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy. "
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Country
American
Nation
" Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go. "
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You
Here
" 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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Surprise
Friends
Me
" 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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" I went to Marion College for writing and I was kicked out of the writing school. I was asked to leave the writing program because I was corrupting the other students. "
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College
Students
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" Nothing wrong with making money or doing what you need to do to sell, but I think it shows when you're writing something to pay the bills and when you're writing something because it's really your version of the world. "
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Doing
" By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips. "
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First
" I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers. "
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Want
" 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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" I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print. "
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Worry
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" Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks. "
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" I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies. "
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" I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice. "
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Voice
Always