Quotes by Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Wisdom

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Wisdom

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Wisdom

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

Success

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Life

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

Wisdom

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Wisdom

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Wisdom

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Wisdom

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Wisdom

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Wisdom

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

Success

Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Happiness

I think like a detective.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Wisdom

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Wisdom

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.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Wisdom

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Wisdom

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Wisdom

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.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Love

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Courage

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.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Wisdom

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.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Hope