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

Laurell K. Hamilton

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

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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. "

Laurell K. Hamilton

" 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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" 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 think like a detective. "

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

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

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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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" 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. "

Laurell K. Hamilton

" 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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" 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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" 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. "

Laurell K. Hamilton

" I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others. "

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

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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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" 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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" Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks. "

Laurell K. Hamilton

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

Laurell K. Hamilton

Creative People

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

Laurell K. Hamilton

" 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'm not terribly fond of soapboxes. "

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

Laurell K. Hamilton

" I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will. "

Laurell K. Hamilton

Believe In Yourself

" The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy. "

Laurell K. Hamilton

" 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 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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