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" 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

You

Thought

Trying

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

" 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 write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock. "

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" As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the street so that the generations served by that library grow up to be adults who contribute not just to their local communities but to the world. "

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Down

World

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" As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people. "