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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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Book
Write
Never
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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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Time
Worry
New
" 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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Fun
Lost
People
" You give the reader a sense of a full meal. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Sense
Meal
Reader
" 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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Think
Writing
Doing
" 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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Paper
Horror
Words
" I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Reader
Gives
Want
" 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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
City
Yourself
Hide
" I am not a morning person. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Person
Morning
I Am
" 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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Strong
Reality
Be Strong
" 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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Successful
Me
Write
" The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Country
American
Nation
" Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Go
You
Here
" 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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Alone
Mystery
Beginning
" I guess, what I'm saying is that when I've been this surprised by my own characters and world, all bets are off. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Been
Saying
World
" You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Your
Head
Either
" What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Stay
Vegas
New
" Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Good
Balance
Evil
" 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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Science
Say
Research
" 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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Own
Voice
Always
" I think like a detective. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Think
Detective
Like
" 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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Myself
Horror
Dream
" Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Argue
Your
You
" 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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Vampire
Think
Movies
" 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? "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Sex
Shy
Book
" If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
People
Wanted
Write
" 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
" I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
More
Than
Interests
" Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Creative
Creative People
People
" Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
People
Understand
True
" 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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Attention
Meeting
Know