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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 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! "

Karin Slaughter

Small

Writing

Wonder

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

" 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. "

" Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive. "

" The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors. "

" I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that. "

Karin Slaughter

Always

Books

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

" I love reading almost as much as I love writing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so much by the end of the class that I never wanted to see it again. "

Karin Slaughter

College

Lost

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

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

Weak

Man

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

Karin Slaughter

Thought

Wind

" 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. "

" It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff. "

" I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do? "

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

" 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. "

" My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food. "

" It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances. "

" As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival. "

" 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