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

Karin Slaughter

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" I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on. "

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

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" I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. "

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

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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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" 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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" No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community. "

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

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" I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now. "

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" As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women. "

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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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" 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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" My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more. "

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

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" Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country. "

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" No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines. "

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" Random House is definitely invested in keeping libraries healthy. "

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

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" Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way. "

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

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" As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters. "

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" Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words? "

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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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