Laurell K. Hamilton quotes:

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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.

  • I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

  • 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.

  • I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

  • Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

  • I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.

  • I went to Marion College for writing and I was kicked out of the writing school. I was asked to leave the writing program because I was corrupting the other students.

  • Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

  • You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

  • I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write.

  • Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development.

  • Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

  • My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.

  • I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.

  • Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true.

  • 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.

  • When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

  • 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.

  • Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

  • Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

  • 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.

  • Love mattered, in the end. A house without love would always fall, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the end without love nothing could endure.

  • Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

  • I got out my jar of ointment. I knew animators who had special containers for the ointment. Crockery, hand-blown glass, mystical symbols carved into the sides. I used an old Mason jar that had once held Grandma Blake's green beans. Larry fished out a peanut butter jar with the label still on it. Extra-crunchy. Yum-Yum.

  • I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens.

  • It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.

  • Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others.

  • When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.

  • I wasn't like most girls.

  • You have a high opinion of yourself, Anita. Confident. I like that. Always so much more entertaining to break someone strong. The weaklings fold and cry and snivel, but the brave ones, they almost demand that you hurt them." He stalked towards me, reaching out one white spider-handDo you want me to hurt you?"

  • Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and f*cks it up. Ain't it always the way.

  • Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you.

  • I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.

  • 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.

  • Women may get to wear lots of pretty colors, but men get the comfortable shoes. Anita Blake Vampire Hunter

  • One serial killer sends me a human head in a box, and I get all spooked; Go figure.

  • If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward's in trouble 'cause no one is home.

  • I wasn't crying, my eyes were running. My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombies all over my toys. Jesus.

  • 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)

  • 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

  • You walk like a duck with a wet diaper on.'' Anita Blake Vampire Hunter

  • Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win.

  • There are only two things you can do when you're dressed like Barbie Does Bondage; you can be embarrassed or you can be aggressive. Guess what my choice was.

  • Anything under size five isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.

  • He ordered food with a childlike glee and watched me eat, tasting it as I did. In private he'd roll on his back like a cat, hands pressed to his mouth as if trying to drain every taste. It was the only thing he did that was cute. He was gorgeous, sensual, but rarely cute. - Anita Blake about Jean-Claude

  • 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.

  • Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.

  • Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others

  • I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice

  • You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does

  • My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

  • Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

  • I hate to shop. I consider it one of life's necessary evils, like brussels sprouts and high-heeled shoes.

  • I sipped my own coffee, heavy on the sugar and cream, trying to make up for the late work the night before. Caffeine and sugar, the two basic food groups.

  • Rafael, the Rat King, stared at the carnage with black-button eyes. "She is dead." "Ding dong, the witch is dead,

  • Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development

  • There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.

  • I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies

  • What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.

  • I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens

  • Somehow I think Trophy Wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But hey, I haven't ever met a Trophy Wife, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs.

  • It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli

  • Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.

  • Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?

  • 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.

  • a pink taffeta evening gown. It looked like it had run away from a junior high prom... The dress looked like a petunia on steroids to me.

  • Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.

  • Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.

  • He made a small sigh, as he swallowed the first blood, then his mouth closed over my earlobe, mouth working at the wound, tongue coaxing blood from the wound. He pressed his body the length of mine, one hand cupping my turned head, the other playing down the line of my body. Maybe it was just blood, but I never stroked my steak while eating it.

  • You should hit him in the face with frying pans more often," Said Rhys "he seems to like it

  • I`m not a morning person

  • Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write

  • The only good enemy is a dead enemy.

  • No 'Good evening, Jean-Claude, how are you doing?' Just down to business. How terribly rude,ma petite ." - Jean-Claude

  • I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

  • How do you introduce boyfriend C to boyfriend A after boyfriend A has been such a good sport, of late, about boyfriend B, who is no longer in the picture?

  • Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked

  • I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.

  • I turned down Halloween parties every year, where people wanted zombies raised at the stroke of midnight or some such nonsense. The scarier my reputation got, the more people wanted me to come be scary for them. I'd told Bert I could always go and threaten to shoot all the partygoers, that'd be scary. Bert had not been amused. But he had stopped asking me to do parties.

  • 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.

  • That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't been innocent for years.

  • I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

  • There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

  • There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.

  • You lie like butter wouldn't melt in your mouth, Edward." He smiled. "I don't lie to you." "Really," I said. The smile became a grin. "Okay, not most of the time, anymore." His face sobered. "I'm not lying now.

  • 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 her pregnancy continues, or even a teenager who made a mistake or a rape victim. 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.

  • If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.

  • 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.

  • People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

  • You are an abomination before God. Jesus loves you too, I said smiling.

  • I'm very judgmental person. It's one of my faults.

  • To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.

  • I'll do my bit tonight, but forgive me if it's a little harder to keep going than normal. Forgive me if I'm not superwoman after all." "Not superwoman?" he exclaimed, putting a hand on his chest in mock surprise. "You've lied to me all these years!

  • I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print

  • You look wonderful", Jason said. "No compliments, Jason. I'm uncomfortable enough in the lingerie." "Then by all means take it off.

  • There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.

  • Nothing turns to hate so bitter as what once was love.

  • The best lies are always at least partially true.

  • One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.

  • Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.

  • I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing.

  • 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.

  • I sat on the bed. Neither of us said anything. I wasn't slick and sophisticated enough for this. What do you say to boyfriend A when he finds you naked in the bed of boyfriend B? Especially if boyfriend A turned into a monster the night before and ate someone. I bet Miss Manners didn't cover this at all.

  • What's your name?" Donald." Hi, Donald, missed you at the wienie roast.

  • I am not a morning person.

  • He didn't look the least bit tired. A morning person, even after no sleep at all. It was disgusting.

  • Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.

  • It always amazes me how many women like dangerous men. Men who almost from the moment you meet them, you know are bad news. Me, I prefer my men kinder, gentler, nice. Niceness is highly underrated by most people.

  • Larry's zombie bag was a nearly virulent green with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it. I was almost afraid to ask what his vampire bag looked like.

  • Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.

  • trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he's blamed himself for introducing you to Olaf here from the get-go. If Olaf did to you what he's done to some of his other victims, Edward would drown the world in blood to erase those images.

  • Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.

  • He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us one sentence, two looks, and a nod - with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking. Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy.

  • Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.

  • Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.

  • I looked up at Ellen and her not-glowing pentagram. "Harm none is the rule, Ellen: bad witch, no cookie.

  • Besides I'm a sucker for a pair of pretty eyes.

  • He laughed, and it raised goose-bumps on my arms. "Oh,ma petite ,ma petite , you are precious." Just what I wanted to hear. "So how are you getting here?" "My private jet." Of course, he had a private jet. "When can you be here?" "I will be there as soon as I can, my impatient flower." "I prefer ma petite to flower.

  • When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.

  • 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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