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" 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

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" 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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

" 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

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

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

Karin Slaughter

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

" For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty. "

Karin Slaughter

" I don't get hung up a lot on angst. "

Karin Slaughter

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

" 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

" I love twins stories. "

Karin Slaughter

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

" I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader. "

Karin Slaughter

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

" When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing. "

Karin Slaughter

" My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author. "

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

" I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on. "

Karin Slaughter

" I'm going to name a name: Janet Evanovich. She writes the same book over and over, and I read every single one of them and eagerly anticipate them. "

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

" I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work. "

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