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

Karin Slaughter

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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. "

Karin Slaughter

" I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody. "

Karin Slaughter

" 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

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

" There aren't many people in the world who can say that they are doing the job they've wanted to do since childhood, so in that regard, I feel incredibly fortunate. "

Karin Slaughter

" I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things. "

Karin Slaughter

" Growing up in Georgia in the southeastern United States, I was always reading and always kept to myself. I never felt isolated, though; I just liked being alone. "

Karin Slaughter

" 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

" Reading is power. Reading is life. "

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

" I've never purposefully based a character on any one person I know, but I'm certain there are amalgamations that exist. "

Karin Slaughter

" My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes. "

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

" 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

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

Karin Slaughter

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

" Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life. "

Karin Slaughter

" Anyone who's been to high school with teenage girls knows how horrible girls can be. "

Karin Slaughter

" I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily. "

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

" '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. "

Karin Slaughter

" 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

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

Karin Slaughter

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

" I've always been drawn to historical fiction. "

Karin Slaughter

" I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty. "

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter