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

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Laurell K. Hamilton

#People Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Folks Quotes

“While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good.”
“The passion for the story is the wind in your narrative sails. Begin at the heart. We must hear the heartbeat of the story. Love your characters into existence.”
“We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.”

Source : "The queen of crime". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.
“Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.”
“Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.”
“Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning.”
“For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you.”

Source : Richard Marcinko (1995). “Green Team”, Atria Books
“I don't debate with liars.”

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