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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. "

Laurell K. Hamilton

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" 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 argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do. "

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

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" Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes. "

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Creative People

" 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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" I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes. "

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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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" What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you. "

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

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" You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice. "

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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 am not a morning person. "

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

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" By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips. "

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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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" I wasn't like most girls. "

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" 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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" My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail. "

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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 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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Believe In Yourself

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

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