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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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" 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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" With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. "

" 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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" Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study. "

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

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

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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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest. "

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" Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm going to name a name: Janet Evanovich. She writes the same book over and over, and I read every single one of them and eagerly anticipate them. "

" I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story. "

" Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life. "

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

" Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive. "

" 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.' "

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

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