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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. "
Karin Slaughter
Sister
Her
Time
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" 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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Better
" Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. 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. "
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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. "
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Language
" 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 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. "
Karin Slaughter
Focus
Writing
Woman
" 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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Doing
Young
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" Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction. "
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World
True
" I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that. "
Karin Slaughter
Always
Books
Like
" Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest. "
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Enjoy
Ignore
Like
" Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder. "
Karin Slaughter
Wind
Had
Shocking
" I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time. "
Karin Slaughter
Language
Time
Internet
" It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude. "
Karin Slaughter
Meeting
People
Someone
" I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on. "
Karin Slaughter
Tell
Want
Story
" As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women. "
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Always
Writing
Writer
" 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. "
Karin Slaughter
Place
Library
Day
" I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died. "
Karin Slaughter
You
Woman
Say
" I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily. "
Karin Slaughter
Human Behavior
Behavior
Evil
" In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk. "
Karin Slaughter
South
Mother
Milk
" 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
" Random House is definitely invested in keeping libraries healthy. "
Karin Slaughter
House
Healthy
Random
" Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "
Karin Slaughter
Reading
Equal
Happiness
" I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do? "
Karin Slaughter
Bad
See
Superhero
" 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
" I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it. "
Karin Slaughter
Being Alone
Alone
People
" When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost. "
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Better
Book
Lost
" I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver. "
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I Can
Want
Always
" 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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My Own
Childhood
Three
" Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors. "
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Boundaries
Crime
Fall
" I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me. "
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Because
Growing
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" If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up. "
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Reading
Dream
American