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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. "
Laurell K. Hamilton
Successful
Me
Write
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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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" 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 feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others. "
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" Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go. "
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" You give the reader a sense of a full meal. "
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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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" My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail. "
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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'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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" I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes. "
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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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" I think like a detective. "
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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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" 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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Doing
" You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice. "
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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 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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Beginning
" I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers. "
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Want
" Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil. "
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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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Book
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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 people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself. "
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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 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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" Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks. "
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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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" 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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