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Writing Quotes by Laurell K. Hamilton
- 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…
- 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…
- 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
- 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…
- My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail
- 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,…
- I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.
- I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.
- Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin…
- 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…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov