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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

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
Novelist
Writer
Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
Everyone
Teens
Write
Horror
Else
Fantasy
Didn
Paper
Doe
Started
Children
Literature
Writing
Read
Slogging
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Compulsion

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I’d learned a long time ago that you can’t prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it’s the devil to prove you didn’t do something.
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Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.
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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.
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It was as if the power and loneliness of the vampires' world had combined with the group oriented puppy-pile world of the shapeshifters and made something new.
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Since you won't give me your names I'll call you Thing One and Thing Two.
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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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So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker Jack box.
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I wasn't like most girls.
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That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.
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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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I hate being awake at three in the morning. It is the godforsaken heart of darkness when the body runs slow, and the brain runs slower, and all you want to do is sleep. But I had promises to keep, and miles to go before I could sleep. Or at least a couple of miracles to perform before I could go to bed.
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A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.
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I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack. The coffin? I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.
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I'm very judgmental person. It's one of my faults.
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It would be nice if you’d stop almost killing me because you don’t want to screw other peo­ple.
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I know you can throw holy water on the vampire, but I didn't know you could throw the host. (Sheriff St. John) I had to smile. They aren't like little holy grenades. I want the host to give to the Quinlans so they can put one at every windowsill, every doorsill. (Anita Blake)
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Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.
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Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.
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