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" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
College
Me
Lost
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" Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory. "
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" The most important lesson I have learned from spending years talking to law enforcement officers is that the vast majority of them really want to do a good job. They have a physical need to do a good job. And yet, we don't give them the resources that would help them. "
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" Women know how to scare other women. "
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" 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. "
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" I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that. "
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" I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time. "
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" I grew up watching the 'People's Choice Awards.' "
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" I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring. "
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" In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk. "
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" 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. "
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" I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life. "
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" Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work. "
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" I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me. "
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" When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people. "
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" I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away. "
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Reading
Learning
" My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes. "
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Never
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" Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder. "
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Had
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" I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.' "
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" As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women. "
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" That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in. "
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" I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk. "
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" It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing. "
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" Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage. "
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" Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.' "
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" There aren't many people in the world who can say that they are doing the job they've wanted to do since childhood, so in that regard, I feel incredibly fortunate. "
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" People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it. "
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" I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there! "
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" No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community. "
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