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All Quotes by author - Karin Slaughter

" A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so much by the end of the class that I never wanted to see it again. "

" Anyone who's been to high school with teenage girls knows how horrible girls can be. "

" As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters. "

" As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people. "

" As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women. "

" As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival. "

" As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older sisters, so of course the sisters in 'Pretty Girls' share some similarities to my own. "

" As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the street so that the generations served by that library grow up to be adults who contribute not just to their local communities but to the world. "

" Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting. "

" Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest. "

" Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world. "

" Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction. "

" Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give it. "

" 'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world. "

" Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "

" Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder. "

" Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.' "

" Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life. "

" Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.' "

" Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well. "

" Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I didn't see the - any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff. "

" For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty. "

" Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live. "

" Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live. "

" Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form. "

" Growing up in Georgia in the southeastern United States, I was always reading and always kept to myself. I never felt isolated, though; I just liked being alone. "

" I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died. "

" I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction. "

" I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found my way and realized that wasn't me. "

" I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver. "

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