Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes - Page 14

I think like a detective.

Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.

[T]hese last few days where I've moped around damn near depressed for real, because of people who do not exist. Not really. I can buy them Christmas presents, but there is no way to send them. Sometimes I feel like I should be able to walk into the next room and there they will be, but they won't. These people do not exisit as flesh and blood, but there are different kinds of reality, and there are days when imagination feels very, very real.

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

So many people took my opinion and some will give it more serious consideration because of who I am. Not because I have a specility in this field that I gave my opinion on, but simply because I am a little bit famous. I find that kind of power to presaude both frightening and exciting. My hope, my most frevent hope, is that I use this louder voice that success has given me, wisely. That I always remember that fame is the by product, not the substance of what I do.

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.

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.

Death is the last intimate thing we ever do.

I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.

Sex is like crying, it does look pretty if you really do it

Guarantees are for major appliances, not for murder.

I am not a morning person.

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

I'm not real big on repentence ... I like revenge better.

Personally, I think neutral is just another way of saving your own ass at the expense of someone else's.

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.

A vampire victim. I'd never seen a lone kill. They were like potato chips; once a vamp tasted them, he couldn't stop at just one.

All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.

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

Heroes don't get anything but dead.

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean.

Fear will bind you closer than love, or hate, and it works a hell of a lot quicker.

If I let you get killed, the other body guards will make fun of me.

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