Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.

I used to think that when I finished a book, I was finished with it. But it's like a wonderful Hydra. Every time a head disappears, more heads appear, so I will be writing for the rest of my life. The more books I write, the more books I find that I still have to write about. I use it like an inspiration, and that's wonderful.

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

The desire to write grows with writing.

My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.

Novelists can ask - they can ask for anything - but their books are their answers in advance.

People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.

I always wrote stories, but I do remember a particular moment in middle school where I became passionate about essay writing.

When I first started writing, I didn't write about scientists at all. I think I wanted a break from that part of my world.

For the years I spent working on it, 'Constellation' was the only novel I knew how to write, so maybe I still abided by the maxim? Regardless, I prefer the maxim: Write what you want to know, rather than what you already know.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

I have written my whole life. I remember writing as a small child.

I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time.

I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing.

I was one of those kids who always wrote.