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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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" 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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" I grew up reading thrillers. Honestly, I was always drawn to the very detailed ones like Patricia Cornwell. I love details. "

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

" That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in. "

" I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry. "

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

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" I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do? "

" I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community. "

" Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live. "

Karin Slaughter

Light

Writing

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver. "

" A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so much by the end of the class that I never wanted to see it again. "

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College

Lost

" I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on. "

" 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. "

" Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction. "

" It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff. "

" You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel. "

" I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.' "

Karin Slaughter

You

Women

" It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.' "

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Your

Seems

" If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over. "

" Women know how to scare other women. "

" I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it. "

" If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up. "