Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris Schulzis an American New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for thirty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area of the United States. She now lives in southern Arkansas with her husband and three children. Though her early work consisted largely of poems about ghosts and, later, teenage angst, she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She began to write books a few years later...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 November 1951
CityTunica, MS
CountryUnited States of America
I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.
It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal.
You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.
Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.
Woo woo, secret vampire stuff!
My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.
Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.
I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something new, and with every new novel I try to improve the process of writing.
America is obsessed with youth. We all want to look young forever, and vampires do. They are caught in their prime, if that's when they've been turned. And they'll be that way forever.
No, I won't ever write another 'Lily Bard.' I said everything I had to say about Lily.
Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities.
I try very hard to write the best book I possibly can, every time.
For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.