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" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
My Own
Childhood
Three
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" My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves. "
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" Reading is power. Reading is life. "
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" I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It's still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I'm touring. "
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" Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study. "
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" When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating. "
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" Oh, I'm completely OCD about neatness. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" I've never purposefully based a character on any one person I know, but I'm certain there are amalgamations that exist. "
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" 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.' "
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" If you wear them outside, they stop being pyjamas. I wear mine to the mail box, which is right in front of my house - that's my limit. Anything else is wrong. "
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You
" I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing. "
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Writing
Sort
" Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right. "
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Making
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Think
" I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver. "
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I Can
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Always
" My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food. "
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Father
Children
Family
" I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody. "
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" Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live. "
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" I love reading almost as much as I love writing. "
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Much
Almost
" My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter. "
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Sister
Smart
She
" 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. "
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Curiosity
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" Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder. "
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" Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.' "
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" I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader. "
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" My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading. "
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" Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work. "
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Two
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" Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "
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" I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily. "
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" When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community. "
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Community
Said
" My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes. "
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Never
Characters