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" Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Good
Balance
Evil
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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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" 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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" By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips. "
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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 people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself. "
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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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" Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do. "
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Your
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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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Need
" Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes. "
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Creative
Creative People
People
" 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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Think
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Doing
" 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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Science
Say
Research
" You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice. "
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Your
Head
Either
" If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder. "
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Wonder
Been
Discouraged
" 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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Fun
Lost
People
" My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail. "
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Sensual
Style
Writing
" 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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Mythology
Culture
Monsters
" 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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Most
Like
Why
" 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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Write
Never
" You give the reader a sense of a full meal. "
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Sense
Meal
Reader
" 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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Vampire
Think
Movies
" 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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" 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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City
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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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" 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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" I think like a detective. "
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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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Help
You
Blessed
" 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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Interests
" What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you. "
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Vegas
New
" 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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Friends
Me