American - Writer | February 19, 1963 -
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.
Laurell K. Hamilton
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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 I was corrupting the other students.
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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.
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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.
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Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks.
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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.
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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.
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You give the reader a sense of a full meal.
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I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.
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Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do.
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If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.
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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.
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