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If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Born:
February 19
, 1963
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I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.
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Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others.
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