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

Karin Slaughter

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" Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest. "

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" I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor. "

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

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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. "

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

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" As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival. "

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" Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive. "

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" Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school. "

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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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" I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found my way and realized that wasn't me. "

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" I love twins stories. "

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

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" Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life. "

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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. "

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" Anyone who's been to high school with teenage girls knows how horrible girls can be. "

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" 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

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

Karin Slaughter

" Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder. "

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" 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. "

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

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" I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to. "

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

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