Karin Slaughter Quotes
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.
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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.
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Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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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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Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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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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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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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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As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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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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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.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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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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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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My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading.
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Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction.