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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
Novelist
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Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
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So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker Jack box.
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If your life works, and you work in it, then it’s okay, whatever is happening is okay.
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Money doesn't spend in hell.... The devil deals in a different coin.
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I'm pro-choice because I've never been a fourteen-year-old incest victim pregnant by her father, or a woman who's going to die if the pregnancy continues, or a rape victim, or even a teenager who made a mistake. I want women to have choices, but I also believe that it's a life, especially once it's big enough to live outside the womb.
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I enjoy my anger, it’s the only hobby I have.
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All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.
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He didn't look the least bit tired. A morning person, even after no sleep at all. It was disgusting.
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He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.
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Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.
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I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.
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she was just that shiver that makes you walk faster at night. You don't know why you do it, but some part of you remembers that the dark is never really empty. ~Anita
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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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Anything under size five isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.
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I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said.
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If you think love makes you happy, you've either never been in love, or never been in love long enough to have to start compromising.
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Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.
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Oh, no, a leopard blew up and plastered itself all over everything, but hey, animal print was in this year.
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one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.
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My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my lovers.
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One of my favorite things about hanging out with the monsters is the healing. Straight humans seemed to get killed on me a lot. Monsters survived. Let's hear it for the monsters.
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