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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.' "
Karin Slaughter
Thought
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Library
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" 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.' "
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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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" That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in. "
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" In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk. "
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" Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches. "
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" I love reading almost as much as I love writing. "
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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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" 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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" It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.' "
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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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" What I know is the characters in a Southern town. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. And I know the neighborhoods, and I hopefully know the people, and I feel a connection to them. And I also feel like I'm honoring them when I talk about them. "
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" Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder. "
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" There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man. "
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" 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
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Good
" I love twins stories. "
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" I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk. "
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" Libraries are the backbone of our education system. "
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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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" 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
" Men are more particular, and they're not going to grab something with a bodice-ripper cover on it. "
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" I'm going to name a name: Janet Evanovich. She writes the same book over and over, and I read every single one of them and eagerly anticipate them. "
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" I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver. "
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" 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. "
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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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" As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival. "
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" I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily. "
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" 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. "
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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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" The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me. "
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" I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. "
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