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" Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
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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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" 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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" I wasn't like most girls. "
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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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" 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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" I am not a morning person. "
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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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" You give the reader a sense of a full meal. "
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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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" Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil. "
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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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" By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips. "
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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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" Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes. "
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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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" 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
" 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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 think like a detective. "
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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'm not terribly fond of soapboxes. "
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" If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder. "
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" You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does. "
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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 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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