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By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
Novelist
Writer
Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
Submitting
Publication
Collecting
Slips
Rejection
Firsts
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Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.
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Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.
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When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.
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