Top 46 Quotes by Laurell K. Hamilton

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

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

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

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.

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.

You give the reader a sense of a full meal.

If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.

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 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.

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else.