Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

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  I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Believe, Writing, Hobbies

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

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Book, Writing, Secret

• My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Writing, Sensual, Style

• It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Writing, Effort, Doe

  FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Jan 24, 2011

• Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Book, Writing, Thinking

• One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Writing, Magic, Literature

• 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

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Book, Writing, Worry

• 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.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Writing, People, Fiction

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

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Writing, Literature, Host

• I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Dream, Fun, Book

• 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

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Children, Writing, Doe

• 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

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Writing, Successful, Trying

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

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Teacher, Writing, Writing Stories

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

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Writing, People, Literature

• Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Writing, Gold, Garbage

• 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

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Book, Writing, Pages

• So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Book, Writing, Hours In The Day

• 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

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Real, Writing, Character

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