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" 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

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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 love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor. "

" I love twins stories. "

" 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 don't get hung up a lot on angst. "

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Hung

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Down

World

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

" The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me. "

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Interest

Familiar

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

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

" 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'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing. "

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Writing

Hours

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude. "

" My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes. "

" Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live. "

" Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage. "

" 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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Weak

Man

" 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'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. "

" Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right. "

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