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" Oh, I'm completely OCD about neatness. "

Karin Slaughter

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" I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating. "

Karin Slaughter

" We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others. "

Karin Slaughter

" 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. "

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" Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live. "

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" Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive. "

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. "

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" I've never purposefully based a character on any one person I know, but I'm certain there are amalgamations that exist. "

Karin Slaughter

" I read a lot of true crime growing up - 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy. "

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

" I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.' "

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" Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country. "

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" 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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" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

" I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away. "

Karin Slaughter

" Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.' "

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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. "

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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

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

Karin Slaughter

" 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. "

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

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" In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk. "

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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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" I grew up reading thrillers. Honestly, I was always drawn to the very detailed ones like Patricia Cornwell. I love details. "

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