Quotes from Laurell K. Hamilton

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do.

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.

Not dating is a choice, not a failure.

No, really, Ronnie, it's good to share information when you know someone else is dating the lunarly challenged.

Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death." - Jean-Claude

Death, jewelry, or magic; it sounded like Valentine's Day.

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.

I'd have much rather gotten dragged into someone else's fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people's emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

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