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" 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. "

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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. "

Karin Slaughter

Focus

Writing

Woman

" The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost. "

" 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! "

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

Karin Slaughter

Neatness

About

" I love twins stories. "

" No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community. "

" My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more. "

Karin Slaughter

Growing

Growing Up

" I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died. "

" I don't get hung up a lot on angst. "

Karin Slaughter

Lot

Hung

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

" If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up. "

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

" 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. "

Karin Slaughter

Down

World

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

Karin Slaughter

Thought

Wind

" 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. "

" Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction. "

" I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even. "

" I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things. "

" That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in. "

" Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive. "

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

" 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. "

" Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.' "