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" Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country. "

Karin Slaughter

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the street so that the generations served by that library grow up to be adults who contribute not just to their local communities but to the world. "

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

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

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" I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock. "

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

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

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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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" I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life. "

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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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