Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Blessed, Help, Enough

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.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Yourself, Help, Open

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

Yourself, Writing, Else

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.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Strong, Reality, Growing

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

Else, Themselves, Anyone

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

Rules, Writer, Magic

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

Good, Evil, Trying

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

Love, Help, Voice

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

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

Rejection, Collecting, Submitting

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

Book, Here, Secret

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

End, Book, Write

I am not a morning person.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Morning, Person

I guess, what I'm saying is that when I've been this surprised by my own characters and world, all bets are off.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Saying, Off, Characters

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

Getting, Attention, Though

I think like a detective.
Laurell K. Hamilton

I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Kiss, Reader, Believable

I wasn't like most girls.
Laurell K. Hamilton

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.
Laurell K. Hamilton

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

Writing, Since, Actually

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

Wanted, Write, Read

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

Creative, Fit, Boxes

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

Writing, Style, Sensual

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Themselves, Characters, Argue

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks.
Laurell K. Hamilton

True, Understand, Seem

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 19, 1963

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