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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? "

Karin Slaughter

Nap

Words

Story

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" 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. "

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

" People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved. "

" As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters. "

" Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest. "

Karin Slaughter

Enjoy

Ignore

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

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

" I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily. "

" 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. "

" No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines. "

Karin Slaughter

Looks

Crime

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.' "

" I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing. "

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

" 'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world. "

Karin Slaughter

Flowers

Wind

" Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live. "

Karin Slaughter

Light

Writing

" Random House is definitely invested in keeping libraries healthy. "

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

" Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "

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

Karin Slaughter

Interest

Familiar

" 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. "

" Libraries are the backbone of our education system. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

Home

Door

" It was always my dream to write for a living. "

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

" I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found my way and realized that wasn't me. "

" 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. "