Quotes By Laurell K. Hamilton
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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Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.
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By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.
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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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I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.
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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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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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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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I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others.
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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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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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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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Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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