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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. "
Karin Slaughter
Think
Curiosity
Curious
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" There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man. "
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" I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader. "
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Information
Great
Think
" 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. "
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" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
Always
Wind
Thought
" Men are more particular, and they're not going to grab something with a bodice-ripper cover on it. "
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Something
Going
" 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
Light
Late
Day
" I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily. "
Karin Slaughter
Human Behavior
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Evil
" As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the street so that the generations served by that library grow up to be adults who contribute not just to their local communities but to the world. "
Karin Slaughter
Down
World
Up
" Reading is power. Reading is life. "
Karin Slaughter
Power
Life
Reading
" I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody. "
Karin Slaughter
High School
Wish
School
" No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines. "
Karin Slaughter
Like
Looks
Crime
" Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction. "
Karin Slaughter
Characters
Jack
Fiction
" 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
Work
Thought
Saying
" I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder. "
Karin Slaughter
Know
Grow
Better
" We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others. "
Karin Slaughter
Teachers
Nice
Good
" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
Escape
Better
Father
" As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women. "
Karin Slaughter
Always
Writing
Writer
" Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school. "
Karin Slaughter
Walk
Minds
You
" As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters. "
Karin Slaughter
Southerner
Obstacles
Love
" Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive. "
Karin Slaughter
Subversive
Once
Visual
" Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest. "
Karin Slaughter
Enjoy
Ignore
Like
" For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty. "
Karin Slaughter
Home
Reading
Child
" 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
Box
Death
Lunch
" 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
Different
World
True
" I've never purposefully based a character on any one person I know, but I'm certain there are amalgamations that exist. "
Karin Slaughter
Person
Character
Exist
" I've always been drawn to historical fiction. "
Karin Slaughter
Always
Been
Historical
" You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel. "
Karin Slaughter
Risks
You
Take
" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
Father
Reading
Clothes
" Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors. "
Karin Slaughter
Boundaries
Crime
Fall
" Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life. "
Karin Slaughter
Happen
Life
Something