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" There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man. "

Karin Slaughter

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" 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. "

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" It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.' "

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

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

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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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" Reading is power. Reading is life. "

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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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" Libraries are the backbone of our education system. "

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" I grew up reading thrillers. Honestly, I was always drawn to the very detailed ones like Patricia Cornwell. I love details. "

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" I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away. "

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" As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters. "

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

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" It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances. "

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

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" I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder. "

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

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

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" When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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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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" Women know how to scare other women. "

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