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Laurell K. Hamilton
American
Writer
About the author
I am not a morning person.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
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.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Fantasy
#Question
#Trying
#Dream
#Horror
Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#People
#Fiction
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.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Character
#Want
#Books
#Violence
#Development
#Sex
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?
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Character
#Development
#Sex
You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
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,
American
Writer
#American
#Country
#Nation
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.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Time
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.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Words
#Will
#End
#May
#Perfection
#Goal
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,
American
Writer
#Now
#Successful
#Being
#Trying
Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Style
#Writing
#Detail
You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Choice
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,
American
Writer
#Writer
#Magic
#Rules
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.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Time
#First
#Writing
#Books
#Worry
I want a kiss to be so believable it give the reader shivers.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Want
#Kiss
I wasn't like most girls.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Girls
I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Writers
I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
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,
American
Writer
#Want
#People
#Fun
#Writing
#Writers
#Talking
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.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Fear
#Being
#Movies
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.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Culture
#Mythology
If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#People
If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Wonder
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,
American
Writer
#Will
#Writing
#Profession
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.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#People
#Friends
#Advice
I think like a detective.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#World
#Evil
#Balance
#Trying
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.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#End
#Beginning
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,
American
Writer
#People
#Science
#Research
#Writing
#Fantasy
#Fiction
#Horror
I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Help
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.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Attention
#Meeting
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,
American
Writer
#Love
#Help
#Voice
#Animals
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.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Words
#Children
#Fantasy
#Horror
Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.
Laurell K. Hamilton,
American
Writer
#First