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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
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" Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks. "
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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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" I am not a morning person. "
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" Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do. "
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" Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Always
" 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'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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" 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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Than
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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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You
Blessed
" 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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Horror
Dream
" I wasn't like most girls. "
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Most
" 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
" If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself. "
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Wanted
Write
" 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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" 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
" 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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Science
Say
Research
" By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips. "
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Rejection
Collecting
First
" 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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Reality
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" 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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Write
Never
" You give the reader a sense of a full meal. "
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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've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually. "
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" I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers. "
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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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" My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail. "
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