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" If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Wonder
Been
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" You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does. "
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" Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go. "
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" 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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" 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
" Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Blessed
" 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
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Writing
Doing
" 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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Saying
World
" If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself. "
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Wanted
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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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Lost
People
" 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
" 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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Magic
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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 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
" 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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Writing
Believe In Yourself
Yourself
" 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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Write
" I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers. "
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Want
" I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes. "
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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 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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Worry
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" I am not a morning person. "
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" You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice. "
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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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" 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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" Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks. "
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" You give the reader a sense of a full meal. "
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Reader