Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you … — Laurell K. Hamilton

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy. — Laurell K. Hamilton
When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I? — Laurell K. Hamilton
Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil. — Laurell K. Hamilton