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" 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

Stop

Wrong

You

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Down

World

" People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

Karin Slaughter

Always

Books

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

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

Karin Slaughter

Interest

Familiar

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

" I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life. "

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

" 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. "

" I've never purposefully based a character on any one person I know, but I'm certain there are amalgamations that exist. "

" It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.' "

Karin Slaughter

Your

Seems

" As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people. "

" 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. "

" 'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world. "

Karin Slaughter

Flowers

Wind

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

" 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. "