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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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Own
Voice
Always
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" You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does. "
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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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Never
" I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers. "
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" Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil. "
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" I wasn't like most girls. "
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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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Beginning
" I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually. "
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Teachers
Stories
" 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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Me
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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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" 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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Attention
Meeting
Know
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Want
Character
Need
" By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips. "
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Rejection
Collecting
First
" Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go. "
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Go
You
Here
" 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
" My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail. "
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Sensual
Style
Writing
" I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes. "
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Fond
Terribly
" 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
Writing
Doing
" You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice. "
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Your
Head
Either
" I think like a detective. "
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Think
Detective
Like
" 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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
College
Students
School
" 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
" 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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Country
American
Nation
" 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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Sex
Shy
Book
" Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book. "
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You
Book
Perfection
" 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. "
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Time
Worry
New
" 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
" You give the reader a sense of a full meal. "
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Sense
Meal
Reader