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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. "

Laurell K. Hamilton

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually. "

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" Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do. "

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" I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes. "

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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 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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" I am not a morning person. "

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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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" If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself. "

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" I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers. "

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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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" You give the reader a sense of a full meal. "

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" You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder. "

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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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" 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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" Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil. "

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" Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go. "

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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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" 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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