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" Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder. "
Karin Slaughter
Wind
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Shocking
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" It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances. "
Karin Slaughter
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Goal
Book
" I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library. "
Karin Slaughter
Story
I Am
Library
" 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
" Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage. "
Karin Slaughter
Deserve
Living
Make
" Random House is definitely invested in keeping libraries healthy. "
Karin Slaughter
House
Healthy
Random
" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
Walk
Reading
Learning
" 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
Want
Think
" My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter. "
Karin Slaughter
Sister
Smart
She
" I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell. "
Karin Slaughter
Always
Stories
Reading
" 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. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world. "
Karin Slaughter
Experience
Book
Good
" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
Mountains
Writing
Home
" 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? "
Karin Slaughter
Nap
Words
Story
" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
Father
Children
Family
" People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved. "
Karin Slaughter
Kind
Just
Never
" Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive. "
Karin Slaughter
Subversive
Once
Visual
" 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
" 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
" When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people. "
Karin Slaughter
People
Church
Grandmother
" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
Home
Reading
Child
" I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction. "
Karin Slaughter
Try
Job
Day
" You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel. "
Karin Slaughter
Risks
You
Take
" I love reading almost as much as I love writing. "
Karin Slaughter
Reading
Much
Almost
" The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.' "
Karin Slaughter
Man
Good
Book
" I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even. "
Karin Slaughter
City
Atlanta
Started
" I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor. "
Karin Slaughter
Love
Turn
Good
" Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "
Karin Slaughter
Reading
Equal
Happiness
" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
Watch
Good
Patient
" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
Information
Great
Think
" 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.' "
Karin Slaughter
Small
You
Big
" I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life. "
Karin Slaughter
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