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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! "

Karin Slaughter

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

" The most important lesson I have learned from spending years talking to law enforcement officers is that the vast majority of them really want to do a good job. They have a physical need to do a good job. And yet, we don't give them the resources that would help them. "

" 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. "

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

" My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading. "

" I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring. "

" Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right. "

" 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. "

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

" I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it. "

" When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost. "

" 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.' "

" We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage. "

" 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. "

" I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life. "

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

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" Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well. "

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

" I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. "

" It was always my dream to write for a living. "

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

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

" Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory. "