Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

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• Hatred is a cold fire, and it gives no warmth.
• I`m not a morning person
• Hatred makes us all ugly.
• Nothing turns to hate so bitter as what once was love.
• Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.
• For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have…
• Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.
• People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.
• There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.
• 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…
• You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does
• 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…
• Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.
• 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…
• Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks
• Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do
• If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself
• 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
• 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…
• 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…

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