Karin Slaughter Quotes
That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
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Look your best - who said love is blind?
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
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The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
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I just write mechanical things.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.
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Sometimes, months elapse before we've completed the song completely. There's no set rule. Something inside of you says - 'now you can present it!' If one of us feels it's not quite right, lyrically or melodically, we don't present it.
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Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
