Karin Slaughter Quotes
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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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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'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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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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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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Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.
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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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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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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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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.
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Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.
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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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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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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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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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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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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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Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.
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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 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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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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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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My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.