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Laurell K. Hamilton
February 19, 1963 -
Nationality: American
Category: Writer
Subcategory: American Writer

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

   

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

   

The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write.

   

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

   

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.

   

My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.

   

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks.

   

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.

   

I wasn't like most girls.

   

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.

   

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.

   

I am not a morning person.

   

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