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" I've always been drawn to historical fiction. "
Karin Slaughter
Always
Been
Historical
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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. "
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" Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage. "
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Living
Make
" Women know how to scare other women. "
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Know
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" 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. "
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" I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It's still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I'm touring. "
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Me
Door
" Oh, I'm completely OCD about neatness. "
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Oh
Neatness
About
" 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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Passion
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" I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me. "
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Growing
Growing Up
" I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on. "
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Tell
Want
Story
" My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes. "
Karin Slaughter
React
Never
Characters
" That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in. "
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Why
Much
Conflict
" I love twins stories. "
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Love
" If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up. "
Karin Slaughter
Reading
Dream
American
" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
My Own
Childhood
Three
" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
Language
Time
Internet
" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
Love
Turn
Good
" I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell. "
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Always
Stories
Reading
" I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died. "
Karin Slaughter
You
Woman
Say
" The most important lesson I have learned from spending years talking to law enforcement officers is that the vast majority of them really want to do a good job. They have a physical need to do a good job. And yet, we don't give them the resources that would help them. "
Karin Slaughter
Good
Talking
Important
" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
Mountains
Writing
Home
" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
Focus
Writing
Woman
" You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel. "
Karin Slaughter
Risks
You
Take
" As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival. "
Karin Slaughter
Survival
Reading
Much
" I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver. "
Karin Slaughter
I Can
Want
Always
" Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school. "
Karin Slaughter
Walk
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You
" 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. "
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Bed
Crime
People
" Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work. "
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Women
Two
People
" Anyone who's been to high school with teenage girls knows how horrible girls can be. "
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School
How
Horrible
" 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. "
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Writing
You
Conversation
" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
Long
Know
Language