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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. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#going #growing #growing up #had #i

For years, I've been wondering what could happen to nuclear submarines when they dive and disappear from the surface of the earth for months, without a trace. No one really knows where they are. ↗

— Guy Hamilton

#could #disappear #dive #earth #happen

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

#how #like #lot #magic #magician

For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#anita #beginning #book #built #each

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 #believe in yourself #else #hobby #i

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

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#creative #creative people #fit #i #into

The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart beat violently, and the breath come thick, by the force of the images they conjure up before it; the desperate anxiety to be doing something to relieve the pain, or lessen the danger, which we have no power to alleviate; the sinking of soul and spirit, which the sad remembrance of our helplessness produces; what tortures can equal these; what reflections of endeavours can, in the full tide and fever of the time, allay them! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#helplessness #loved-ones #sickness #equality

I went to Marion College for writing and I was kicked out of the writing school. I was asked to leave the writing program because I was corrupting the other students. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#because #college #corrupting #i #kicked

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

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