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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

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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" Women know how to scare other women. "

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" I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now. "

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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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" We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others. "

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" Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches. "

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" People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it. "

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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 love twins stories. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it. "

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" I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died. "

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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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" I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It's still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I'm touring. "

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" I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring. "

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" I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk. "

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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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" 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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" Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.' "

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

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

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" I've always been drawn to historical fiction. "

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