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" Random House is definitely invested in keeping libraries healthy. "

Karin Slaughter

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

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

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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 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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" Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give it. "

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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.' "

Karin Slaughter

" A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so much by the end of the class that I never wanted to see it again. "

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

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" I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty. "

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

" I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell. "

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

" I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me. "

Karin Slaughter

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

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

" Women know how to scare other women. "

Karin Slaughter

" I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing. "

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

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

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 can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. "

Karin Slaughter

" As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women. "

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

" I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way. "

Karin Slaughter

" My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves. "

Karin Slaughter

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter