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" By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips. "

Laurell K. Hamilton

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" Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil. "

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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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" Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do. "

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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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" 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 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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Believe In Yourself

" I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes. "

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" I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers. "

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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 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'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does. "

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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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" 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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" I think like a detective. "

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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'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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" 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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" 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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" Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes. "

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Creative People

" 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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" Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others. "

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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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" You give the reader a sense of a full meal. "

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

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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 happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you. "

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