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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.

Laurell K. Hamilton

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
Novelist
Writer
Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
Else
Writing
Believe
Hobby
Always
Hobbies
Never
Profession
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Literature

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You lie like butter wouldn't melt in your mouth, Edward. He smiled. I don't lie to you. Really, I said. The smile became a grin. Okay, not most of the time, anymore. His face sobered. I'm not lying now.
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Sometimes the greatest wounds are the ones we try the hardest not to inflict.
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Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win.
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My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my lovers.
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being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.
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It was an hour before dawn. When all the Whos down in Whoville were asnooze in their beds without care. Sorry, wrong book. If I get to stay awake until dawn, I get just a tad slaphappy.
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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
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Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.
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Personally I didn't believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power, his energy, Him.
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I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too.
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Knock your bad self out.
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Goddess” he said. Her voice floated to us. Yes, Child.” Will I see you again?” Just her voice now, young and old at the same time. “In the face of every woman you meet
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