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

Karin Slaughter

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" Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me. "

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" 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. "

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" Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches. "

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

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

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" I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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" Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.' "

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" I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It's still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I'm touring. "

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

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" My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves. "

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" I'm going to name a name: Janet Evanovich. She writes the same book over and over, and I read every single one of them and eagerly anticipate them. "

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

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" Libraries are the backbone of our education system. "

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" Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors. "

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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. "

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" I grew up having the library as the best place ever. I spent a lot of weekends there as a kid - my parents would drop me off and leave me there all day. I would just sit in the back and read whatever I could find. "

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

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

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" If you wear them outside, they stop being pyjamas. I wear mine to the mail box, which is right in front of my house - that's my limit. Anything else is wrong. "

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" As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival. "

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