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Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
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Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
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The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake
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Different isn't evil, it's just different.
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Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another.
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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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Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan. I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. Never tease a woman about her weight, Jean-Claude. At least not an American twentieth-century one. He Spread his hands wide. My deepest apologies. When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect.
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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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Why is everything always my decision? I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else. Oh, I remembered now. Great, I whispered. - Anita to Jean-Claude
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Do you really have the ability to control all types of undead? Magnus asked. Can you really make a hundred shoes in a single night? I asked. Magnus smiled. Wrong kind of fairie.
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Zerbrowski said, Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try. It took me a second to realize that he had just quoted Star Wars to me. It made me smile, and in that moment I loved him, just for that.
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Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.
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Anything under size five isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.
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Can you truly love anyone if you do not first love yourself? If you hate yourself, can you love anyone else? If you do not accept all of who you are, can you accept anyone else? Hard questions. It remains to be seen whether I get any answers, hard, or otherwise.
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