Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

I don't consciously go out looking for themes. They attach themselves to me.

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

I think good taste is completely subjective. If you enjoy something, that's great! Enjoy it, and don't let anyone tell you not to.

If I'm desperate, I'll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-and-fast rules. I have rules about what I won't read, rather than what I will. No science fiction, no romance, no chick lit. Although even these rules can be broken.

To each his own. You like what you like. If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.

Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.

I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.

At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.

Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.

I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious or that I'm doing on purpose.

Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change.

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

Personally, I cain't stand classical stuff, but I don't tell the world about it. I just turn the radio off. Now, why cain't these folks who don't like my kind of music do the same?

People ask me, how was university; I say it was boring and it wasn't for me. But if you wanna go, that's cool. I'm not out to lead people astray, but everyone has their vices.

I don't think there is one player who is liked by everybody. Every single person has their own flavor.

I have books I like very much, but I don't think there are any books that everyone should read. I prefer a world in which some people read this, and others read that.

I like some things other people don't like, and they like stuff I don't like.

When a different type of music is put in front of you, you can choose for yourself what you're supposed to like.

I'm all over the place with what I listen to.