Quotes from Laurell K. Hamilton

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

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.

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

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 spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasn't going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for me.

Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst.

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

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.

Some issues stay fresh every time you open them up. It's like evil magical Tupperware -- it stays fresh forever.

I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.

I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

You will never lose your nerve. Your life, probably, but never your nerve.

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

Oui , but if all the men in your life are happy, you are happier, and it makes my life easier." - Jean-Claude

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

You give the reader a sense of a full meal.

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

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 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

One of the things cops learn first is that everyone lies. Some people to hide things, some people just for the hell of it, but everyone lies. Assume that everyone is hiding something, it saves time.

I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others.

When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he's there or not.

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.

Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that's based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.