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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. "

Karin Slaughter

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" Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction. "

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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've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that. "

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

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" Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel. "

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

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" It was always my dream to write for a living. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing. "

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" I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time. "

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" I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library. "

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" 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. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world. "

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

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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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" As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the street so that the generations served by that library grow up to be adults who contribute not just to their local communities but to the world. "

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" My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter. "

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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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" I grew up watching the 'People's Choice Awards.' "

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

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

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

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