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" I've never purposefully based a character on any one person I know, but I'm certain there are amalgamations that exist. "

Karin Slaughter

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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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" 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. "

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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 read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away. "

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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? "

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" 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. "

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