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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 have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do? "

Karin Slaughter

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" Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. 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. "

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

" Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give it. "

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

" 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.' "

" Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well. "

" Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting. "

" I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

Karin Slaughter

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Karin Slaughter

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" 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. "

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

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

Karin Slaughter

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Familiar

" 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. "

" 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! "

" As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival. "

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

" I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily. "

" Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "