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" I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story. "

Karin Slaughter

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter. "

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" Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.' "

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" When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community. "

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" When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people. "

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" 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. "

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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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" I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there! "

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

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" Reading is power. Reading is life. "

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