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" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
Going
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You
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" I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even. "
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" The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me. "
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" 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. "
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Me
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" 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. "
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Someone
" 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. "
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Character
Live
Light
" 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. "
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" I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody. "
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High School
Wish
School
" 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. "
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Think
Curiosity
Curious
" My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves. "
Karin Slaughter
Preach
People
Speak
" As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters. "
Karin Slaughter
Southerner
Obstacles
Love
" I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it. "
Karin Slaughter
Being Alone
People
Good
" When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing. "
Karin Slaughter
Go
Writing
Hours
" I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library. "
Karin Slaughter
Story
I Am
Library
" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
Writing
You
Conversation
" Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world. "
Karin Slaughter
Experience
Book
Good
" Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country. "
Karin Slaughter
Always
Country
Kind
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
Story
Goal
Book
" 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
" With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. "
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Crime
Behind
Opportunity
" I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing. "
Karin Slaughter
Crazy
Writing
Sort
" As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older sisters, so of course the sisters in 'Pretty Girls' share some similarities to my own. "
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My Own
Childhood
Three
" I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. "
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Atlanta
Voice
Long
" Men are more particular, and they're not going to grab something with a bodice-ripper cover on it. "
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Cover
Something
Going
" 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? "
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Nap
Words
Story
" 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. "
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Father
Reading
Clothes
" 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. "
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She
Book
Name
" I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do? "
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Bad
See
Superhero
" 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. "
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