Kim Harrison Quotes

• People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don’t even have spare time, and if I did, I’d probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.

  Kim Harrison

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• I’ve found that when I’m having trouble solidifying a character or a scene, that music will often free my subconscious just that last little bit to allow me to move forward, and often it’s in a direction that I didn’t expect, but is 100 percent true to the character.

  Kim Harrison

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• I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared, having only what I read as a guide, and no formal training whatsoever. I credit that very ignorance with a great deal of my success.

  Kim Harrison

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• Don’t fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as a job, treat it like a job, and just as you don’t go to work only when you feel like it, you have to condition yourself to sit and write even when the ideas don’t flow.

  Kim Harrison

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• Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it’s a soft manipulator of influence and change.

  Kim Harrison

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• I wish I could say I write 9-5. It’s usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends.

  Kim Harrison

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• Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.

  Kim Harrison

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• Nothing is so hard that it can’t be found by searching.

  Kim Harrison

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Birth:	1966
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

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