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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. "

Laurell K. Hamilton

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

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

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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 wasn't like most girls. "

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

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

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