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

Karin Slaughter

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" I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work. "

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" Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage. "

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" Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school. "

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" I don't get hung up a lot on angst. "

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" People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved. "

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" Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.' "

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" If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task. "

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" I love reading almost as much as I love writing. "

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

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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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" 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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" Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. 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. "

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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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" Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory. "

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" I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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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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" I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that. "

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" 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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" I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that. "

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" I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story. "

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" Women know how to scare other women. "

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" Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words? "

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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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" 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. "

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