People Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks. - Laurell K. Hamilton
Research Science Writing People 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. - Laurell K. Hamilton
Words Children 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. - Laurell K. Hamilton
Violence Sex Want 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. - Laurell K. Hamilton
Perfection Goal Words May End 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. - Laurell K. Hamilton
Balance World Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil. - Laurell K. Hamilton
Wonder With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext. - Larry Wachowski