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" I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away. "

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" If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over. "

Karin Slaughter

Going

Decision

You

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk. "

" The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me. "

Karin Slaughter

Interest

Familiar

" I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died. "

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

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

" '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. "

Karin Slaughter

Flowers

Wind

" What I know is the characters in a Southern town. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. And I know the neighborhoods, and I hopefully know the people, and I feel a connection to them. And I also feel like I'm honoring them when I talk about them. "

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

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

" I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found my way and realized that wasn't me. "

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

" Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "

" Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.' "

" 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. "

" Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give it. "

" I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing. "

" Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest. "

Karin Slaughter

Enjoy

Ignore

" Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. "

" Men are more particular, and they're not going to grab something with a bodice-ripper cover on it. "

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

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

Karin Slaughter

Crime

Growing

" I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library. "

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

" Women know how to scare other women. "

" The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.' "