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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
Doe
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Children
Literature
Writing
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Slogging
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Compulsion
Everyone
Teens
Write
Horror
Else
Fantasy
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some choices you make with your heart some with your head but when in doubt choose head over heart.... it will keep you alive. -merry gentry
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I got out my jar of ointment. I knew animators who had special containers for the ointment. Crockery, hand-blown glass, mystical symbols carved into the sides. I used an old Mason jar that had once held Grandma Blake's green beans. Larry fished out a peanut butter jar with the label still on it. Extra-crunchy. Yum-Yum.
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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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I`m not a morning person.
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Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?
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We were U.S. Marshals. We hunted and killed the monsters. We did not run from them
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He doesn’t pretend,” the punk pixie said. He nodded toward Doyle. “Nice rings. You got anything else pierced?” “Yes,” Doyle said. The boy smiled, making the rings in the edge of his nose and his bottom lip curl cheerfully with it. “Me too,” he said.
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Sometimes the greatest wounds are the ones we try the hardest not to inflict.
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His parting shot to me had been, I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am. What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.
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He said,'Trust yourself, mon ami. You are not your friend with his so-sad tale. And Anita is not human. Through us she is more than that. Both of us huddle around her humanity like it is the last candle flame in a world of darkness. But by our very love, we make her less human, and more.
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Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind.
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Anything under size five isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.
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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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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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I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle.
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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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I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.
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A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.
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Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.
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