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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.

Laurell K. Hamilton

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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
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I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.
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We're making a list. And checking it twice. Edward shook his head.
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A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.
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Anyone who doesn't believe that the forest is a deadly place has never been lost in one.
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Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.
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I will go to my grave seeing the look on your face at the last. Keep it up and you'll go sooner than later.
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Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens
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Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I'm not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make.
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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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One thing I've learned about vampires--they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.
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No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.
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I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.
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Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.
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Love is not about owning someone, but about loving them.
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Jason patted me on the back. “Tomorrow night we'll take you out chasing deer.” “I thought you'd chase cars,” I said. He grinned. “What fun is that? Cars don't bleed.
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If you love someone, then your freedom is curtailed. If you love someone, you give up much of your privacy. If you love someone, then you are no longer merely one person but half of a couple. To think or behave any other way is to risk losing that love.
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We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys. -Edward
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You did not bring down two of the royal guard in an unceremonious heap because the woman in the middle tripped.
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He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.
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