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Compromise is an imperfect act.

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
Imperfect
Compromise

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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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I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.
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One of my favorite things about hanging out with the monsters is the healing. Straight humans seemed to get killed on me a lot. Monsters survived. Let's hear it for the monsters.
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I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.
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I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.
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We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.
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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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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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He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.
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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
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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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I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print
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When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.
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You did not bring down two of the royal guard in an unceremonious heap because the woman in the middle tripped.
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She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said. No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.
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Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.
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I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy it's a rule.
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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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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.
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I think like a detective.
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