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If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die.

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
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Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.
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Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?
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But if anything will turn me off, it's a very practiced approach, as if the man has done it a thousand times before, to a lot of different women. Which always seems to imply that I am no different from all the rest. Not flattering.
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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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They be crazier than we are.
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Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.
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Just what I needed—a necromancer with an attitude. Oh, wait, I was a necromancer with an attitude.
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Anyone who doesn't believe that the forest is a deadly place has never been lost in one.
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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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You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.
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Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.
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I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.
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I, Anita Blake, scourge of the undead-the human with more vampire kills than any other vampire executioner in the country-was dating a vampire. It was poetically ironic.
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If your life works, and you work in it, then it’s okay, whatever is happening is okay.
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It all adds up never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page.
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Oh, I'll enjoy myself. I want to make sure you enjoy yourself. Why? I said. If you enjoy yourself, then there's a better chance you'll want to be with me again.
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By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.
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I should not have to flirt with someone while I'm trying to threaten someone else with a gun it was too hard to do both.
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Your heart is not a wound to be poked at to see if the scab is ready to come off. You can be healed of that very old pain, if you’ll just let it happen. (Marianne)
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