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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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" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

Good

Talking

Important

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

" The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.' "

" My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more. "

Karin Slaughter

Growing

Growing Up

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

Down

World

" When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness. "

" I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me. "

" If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task. "

" Men are more particular, and they're not going to grab something with a bodice-ripper cover on it. "

" When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people. "

" I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even. "

" I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there! "

" I grew up watching the 'People's Choice Awards.' "

Karin Slaughter

Choice

Awards

" I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that. "

" If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over. "

" Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction. "

" Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage. "

" I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do? "

" Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors. "

" I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody. "

" 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. "

" I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story. "

" 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. "

" Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.' "

Karin Slaughter

Thought

Wind

" If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up. "

" I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that. "

Karin Slaughter

Always

Books

" 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? "

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