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

Karin Slaughter

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" '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. "

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" With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. "

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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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" It was always my dream to write for a living. "

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" I love twins stories. "

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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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" 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 write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing. "

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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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" The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me. "

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" Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life. "

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