Quotes from Laurell K. Hamilton

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.

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 guess, what I'm saying is that when I've been this surprised by my own characters and world, all bets are off.

I am not a morning person.

Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto

The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.

Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.

I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.

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

A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.

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

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.

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

I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule.

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself.

It was as if the power and loneliness of the vampires' world had combined with the group oriented puppy-pile world of the shapeshifters and made something new.

Personally I didn't believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power, his energy, Him.

My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my lovers.

Nicky looked down at me with a knowledge on his face that he was holding the monster in his arms. I'd have comforted him, but it would have been all lies.

I think like a detective.

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

I enjoy my anger, it's the only hobby I have.