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" I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died. "

Karin Slaughter

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" As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women. "

" 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. "

" Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating. "

" 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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" Men are more particular, and they're not going to grab something with a bodice-ripper cover on it. "

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" 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. "

" People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it. "

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

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

" 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. "

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" Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder. "