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" Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction. "
Karin Slaughter
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Jack
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" I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction. "
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" Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form. "
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" Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.' "
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" My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food. "
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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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" Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "
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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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" When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people. "
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" Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live. "
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" Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors. "
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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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" When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Women know how to scare other women. "
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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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" It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff. "
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" I love twins stories. "
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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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" 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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" When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime. "
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" Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.' "
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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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" I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.' "
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" I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story. "
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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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" 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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