Quotes by Laurell K. Hamilton

About Laurell K. Hamilton:

Laurell Kaye Hamilton is an American fantasy and romance writer. She is best known as the author of two series of stories.
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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.

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

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

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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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If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself.

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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've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

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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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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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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'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.

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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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You give the reader a sense of a full meal.

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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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when you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope

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trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he's blamed himself for introducing you to Olaf here from the get-go. If Olaf did to you what he's do...

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Perfect, complete, needing nothing, simply all there was, was the dark.

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You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like...

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Author Bio

  • NameLaurell K. Hamilton
  • DescriptionNovelist
  • BornFebruary 19, 1963
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksMerry Gentry (series)