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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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Mythology
Culture
Monsters
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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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" 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 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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" It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up. "
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" One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane. "
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" Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go. "
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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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" My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail. "
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" For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book. "
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" You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does. "
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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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" I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually. "
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Teachers
Stories
" I think like a detective. "
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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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Say
Research
" 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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" 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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Me
" You give the reader a sense of a full meal. "
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" I am not a morning person. "
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" Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development. "
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" I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though. "
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" You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips. "
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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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