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

Karin Slaughter

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" No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community. "

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" I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it. "

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" Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

Karin Slaughter

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

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" I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock. "

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" We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others. "

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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. "

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

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" I've always been drawn to historical fiction. "

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" I love twins stories. "

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" Anyone who's been to high school with teenage girls knows how horrible girls can be. "

Karin Slaughter

" My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves. "

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" Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life. "

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" I grew up having the library as the best place ever. I spent a lot of weekends there as a kid - my parents would drop me off and leave me there all day. I would just sit in the back and read whatever I could find. "

Karin Slaughter

" 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

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

Karin Slaughter

" 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? "

Karin Slaughter

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

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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

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

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" Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder. "

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