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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. "

Karin Slaughter

Myself

Alone

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well. "

" Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study. "

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

" I love twins stories. "

" Reading is power. Reading is life. "

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

" Women know how to scare other women. "

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

" Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.' "

" I love reading almost as much as I love writing. "

" I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. "

" I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction. "

" 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. "

" There aren't many people in the world who can say that they are doing the job they've wanted to do since childhood, so in that regard, I feel incredibly fortunate. "

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

Weak

Man

" I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

Karin Slaughter

Lot

Hung

" Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work. "

" Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form. "

" 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. "

" Libraries are the backbone of our education system. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Karin Slaughter

Thought

Wind