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

Karin Slaughter

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" My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading. "

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" You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel. "

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

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" If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task. "

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" 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. "

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

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" I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library. "

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" I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things. "

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" I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to. "

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" I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more. "

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" 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. "

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" Growing up in Georgia in the southeastern United States, I was always reading and always kept to myself. I never felt isolated, though; I just liked being alone. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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" My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes. "

Karin Slaughter

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

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" There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man. "

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" I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver. "

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" That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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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. "

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