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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
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Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
Rejection
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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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Goddess” he said. Her voice floated to us. Yes, Child.” Will I see you again?” Just her voice now, young and old at the same time. “In the face of every woman you meet
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He had this old southern idea of what a lady should be. A lady should not carry a gun and spend most of her time covered in blood and corpses. I had two words for that attitude. Yeah, those are the words.
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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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I just don't believe in helping people who are going to torture me. Though I don't see any bamboo slivers. How can you possibly torture someone without bamboo slivers?
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No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.
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If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.
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A little boy who's discovered the monster under the bed is actually real, and it's screwing Mommy.
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Different isn't evil, it's just different.
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All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.
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We're making a list. And checking it twice. Edward shook his head.
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Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.
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For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book.
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The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.
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Be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.
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Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you.
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Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.
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Some issues stay fresh every time you open them up. It's like evil magical Tupperware -- it stays fresh forever.
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I have lived for over three hundred years. In that time, the ideal of beauty has changed many times. Large breasts, small, thin, curved, tall, short, they have all been the height of beauty at one time or another. But in all that time, ma petite, I have never desired anyone the way I desire you. - Jean-Claude
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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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