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" I am not a morning person. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Person
Morning
I Am
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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'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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" 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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" If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder. "
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" By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips. "
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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 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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" 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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Students
School
" Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do. "
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Your
You
" I wasn't like most girls. "
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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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Doing
" 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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Want
Character
Need
" 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
" Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil. "
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Good
Balance
Evil
" 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
" Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks. "
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People
Understand
True
" 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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Book
Write
Never
" You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does. "
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Fan
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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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Yourself
" What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you. "
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Stay
Vegas
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. "
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Lost
People
" If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself. "
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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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Writing
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Stories
" 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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" 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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" 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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Culture
Monsters
" 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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" 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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" 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