Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (51 Quotes)




    Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.





    The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.


    You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine.



    Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.

    He rewarded me with one of those brilliant smiles. If I had been less professional, it might have melted me into my socks. There was a tinge of evil to it, a lot of sex, but under that was a little boy peeking out, an uncertain little boy. That was it. That was the attraction. Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself. It appeals not only to the woman in us all, but the mother. A dangerous combination.

    I had been downright paranoid all afternoon, aware of everyone near me. By the time I went for the car, my neck and shoulders were knotted into one painful ache. The most frightening thing I'd seen all afternoon had been the prices on the designer clothing.

    I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.




    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.

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


    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.

    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.

    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.

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

    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.

    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.


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

    The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.

    I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.


    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.

    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.

    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?

    I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else.


    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.


    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.

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

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

    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.

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


    You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does.

    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.


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