Laurell K. Hamilton

“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.”

“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.”

“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 hate women who complain about being fat when they're like a size 5. Anything under size 5 isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.”

“I guess, what I'm saying is that when I've been this surprised by my own characters and world, all bets are off.”

“My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.”

“I don't have a master. I'm not sure if I have an equal.”

“Since we’re made in God’s image, this must be from Him, so even God must need an “atta boy,” an out-loud, in-your-head “Thank you, great job on that sunset and that platypus was a brilliant fun idea.” Maybe that’s why we’re supposed to pray the way we do, because without it God would be lonely.”

“When God ignores you, the devil starts looking good.”

“I will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss.”

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

“If you’re alive, don’t move, if you’re dead, don’t worry about it.”

“when you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope”

“I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.”

“Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.”

“Lastly, people seemed to think that morality was the same thing as being politically correct, and it wasn't. Some of the most deeply moral people I knew were least politically correct, because they actually worried about good and evil, not just what they were told was good or bad.”

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”

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

“Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true.”

“Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.”