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" My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more. "
Karin Slaughter
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" I've always been drawn to historical fiction. "
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" The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.' "
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" Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.' "
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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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" 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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" The most important lesson I have learned from spending years talking to law enforcement officers is that the vast majority of them really want to do a good job. They have a physical need to do a good job. And yet, we don't give them the resources that would help them. "
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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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Children
Family
" 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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" When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people. "
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Church
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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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Fans
Home
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" I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things. "
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" As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival. "
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" I read a lot of true crime growing up - 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy. "
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Up
Crime
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" Libraries are the backbone of our education system. "
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System
Backbone
Our
" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
Mountains
Writing
Home
" A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so much by the end of the class that I never wanted to see it again. "
Karin Slaughter
College
Me
Lost
" As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people. "
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Bed
Crime
People
" 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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Place
Library
Day
" Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world. "
Karin Slaughter
Experience
Book
Good
" People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved. "
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Kind
Just
Never
" 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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Like
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Man
" I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now. "
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You
Thought
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" I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily. "
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Human Behavior
Behavior
Evil
" 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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Know
Grow
Better
" 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. "
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Long
Know
Language
" When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community. "
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Library
Community
Said
" I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that. "
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Book
Writer
Know
" I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring. "
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Who
Nice
Boring
" Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right. "
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Making
Want
Think
" 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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