Quotes By Laurell K. Hamilton

You give the reader a sense of a full meal.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.

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

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