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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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Paper
Horror
Words
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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 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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Know
" 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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Book
" 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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Say
Research
" My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail. "
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Style
Writing
" 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
Write
" You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice. "
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Head
Either
" 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
" 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
" Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go. "
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Go
You
Here
" I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes. "
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Terribly
" Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do. "
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Argue
Your
You
" I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Writing
Believe In Yourself
Yourself
" 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
" 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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
You
Book
Perfection
" 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
" Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Most
Like
Why
" I think like a detective. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Think
Detective
Like
" I wasn't like most girls. "
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Like
Most
" 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
" 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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Strong
Reality
Be Strong
" 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
" I am not a morning person. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Person
Morning
I Am
" 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 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
" 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
" 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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Never
Magic
Like
" 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
" You give the reader a sense of a full meal. "
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Sense
Meal
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