Quotes By Laurell K. Hamilton

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.

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.

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else.

I think like a detective.

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

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.