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" As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival. "
Karin Slaughter
Survival
Reading
Much
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" Reading is power. Reading is life. "
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" I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock. "
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" 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. "
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Up
" 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. "
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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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Fans
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" 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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" When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness. "
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" I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing. "
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" It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff. "
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Dark
Very
" I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now. "
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You
Thought
Trying
" The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.' "
Karin Slaughter
Literature
Kind
Stories
" I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way. "
Karin Slaughter
Think
Curiosity
Curious
" Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory. "
Karin Slaughter
Even
Love
Police
" Anyone who's been to high school with teenage girls knows how horrible girls can be. "
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School
How
Horrible
" I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do? "
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Bad
See
Superhero
" My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author. "
Karin Slaughter
Time
Wake Up
Questions
" Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder. "
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Wind
Had
Shocking
" Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well. "
Karin Slaughter
Well
Feminism
Fact
" If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up. "
Karin Slaughter
Reading
Dream
American
" People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved. "
Karin Slaughter
Kind
Just
Never
" My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more. "
Karin Slaughter
Growing
Growing Up
More
" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
Language
Time
Internet
" I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it. "
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Being Alone
Alone
People
" I grew up having the library as the best place ever. I spent a lot of weekends there as a kid - my parents would drop me off and leave me there all day. I would just sit in the back and read whatever I could find. "
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Place
Library
Day
" 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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Always
Wind
Thought
" It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude. "
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Meeting
People
Someone
" I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty. "
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Set
Age
Book
" Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches. "
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Churches
Civil War
Either
" I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry. "
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Small Town
Small
Nothing
" Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage. "
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Deserve
Living
Make