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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

#beginning #book #end #hundreds #i

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

#especially #fantasy #fiction #horror #how

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

#characters #constantly #friends #give #i

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. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#bills #doing #i #i think #making

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#either #explodes #head #mellow #our choice

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#defend #democracy #makes #our #refine

U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#china #chinese #comprehensive #experts #gotten

I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that. ↗

— Natasha Hamilton

#career #children #drive #i #i tried

Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#complete #effort #expect #give #maintain

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#favorite #felt #i #like #making