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" I read a lot of true crime growing up - 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy. "

Karin Slaughter

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

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

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

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" Anyone who's been to high school with teenage girls knows how horrible girls can be. "

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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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" 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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" It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude. "

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" I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell. "

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" If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up. "

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

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" I love reading almost as much as I love writing. "

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" Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life. "

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" I grew up reading thrillers. Honestly, I was always drawn to the very detailed ones like Patricia Cornwell. I love details. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" I've never purposefully based a character on any one person I know, but I'm certain there are amalgamations that exist. "

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

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

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

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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.' "

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

" I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to. "

Karin Slaughter

" I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction. "

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" Libraries are the backbone of our education system. "

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" 'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world. "

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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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