939 Quotes by Laurell K. Hamilton

Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita

I got out my jar of ointment. I knew animators who had special containers for the ointment. Crockery, hand-blown glass, mystical symbols carved into the sides. I used an old Mason jar that had once held Grandma Blake's green beans. Larry fished out a peanut butter jar with the label still on it. Extra-crunchy. Yum-Yum.

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks

What was I supposed to say?.....did I tell them the Master had the hots for me, so I'd probably be okay? -Anita

That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.

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

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.

More than honor, more than life, I love thee." What do you say when a man whose entire existence had been his honor offers to give it up for you? You say the only thing you can. More than any crown or throne or title, I love thee," I said. "more than any power in faerie, I love thee.

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