Quotes from Laurell K. Hamilton

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.

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

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think. Did that sound hopeless? It didn't feel hopeless. It felt reassuring. It felt - real.

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.

Friends don't count the cost of favors.

You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine.

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

Never argue when you're winning.

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

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

Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I'd just like to meet one who's human.

Now that's an Okay that really means Okay, not that Okay that women use that means everything but Okay.

It has been my experience that women tell more intimate details to their friends than men do. Men may brag more, but women will talk the nitty-gritty and share the experience more.

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

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.

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.

Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.

Just what I needed—a necromancer with an attitude. Oh, wait, I was a necromancer with an attitude.

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.

Nothing wrong with making money or doing what you need to do to sell, but I think it shows when you're writing something to pay the bills and when you're writing something because it's really your version of the world.

If your life works, and you work in it, then it's okay, whatever is happening is okay.

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

I hated missing the end of anything. I was always convinced that the bit I'd miss would be the best part.

Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens