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

Karin Slaughter

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" 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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" 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. "

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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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" When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community. "

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

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" When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime. "

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

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

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" It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff. "

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" I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there! "

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" 'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world. "

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" I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver. "

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" Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.' "

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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. "

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

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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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" Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory. "

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" The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.' "

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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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