Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died. "

Karin Slaughter

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

" 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? "

Karin Slaughter

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

" I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it. "

Karin Slaughter

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

" When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime. "

Karin Slaughter

" I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time. "

Karin Slaughter

" It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing. "

Karin Slaughter

" Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live. "

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

" When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost. "

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

" Women know how to scare other women. "

Karin Slaughter

" When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness. "

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

" Reading is power. Reading is life. "

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter