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" 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. "

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" I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. "

Karin Slaughter

Life

Passion

My Life

" 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. "

" As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women. "

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

" Oh, I'm completely OCD about neatness. "

Karin Slaughter

Neatness

About

" 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 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. "

" Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work. "

" Women know how to scare other women. "

" I love twins stories. "

" My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more. "

Karin Slaughter

Growing

Growing Up

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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

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

Karin Slaughter

Thought

Wind

" Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.' "

" 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. "

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

" I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now. "

" Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "