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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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" '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

" Women know how to scare other women. "

" My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author. "

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

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

" I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.' "

Karin Slaughter

You

Women

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

" 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. "

" When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" I've always been drawn to historical fiction. "

" 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! "

" I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Karin Slaughter

Enjoy

Ignore

" Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing. "

" With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. "