I started off like everyone else does, s...

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

Quote of the Day

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

- Elbert Hubbard

Other quotes by Laurell K. Hamilton

Meeting Attention

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

People

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

- Laurell K. Hamilton

Kiss Want

I want a kiss to be so believable it give the reader shivers.

- Laurell K. Hamilton

Magic Writer

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

Detail Writing

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

- Laurell K. Hamilton

Balance World

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

- Laurell K. Hamilton

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Present Children

Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

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If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.

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Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

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The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

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