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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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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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 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 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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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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We love our fans, so there's nothing we wouldn't do for them, and we go directly to t hem.
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I love mixing amateurs and professionals.
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People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
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I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.
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If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.
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Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
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Times change, and we change with them.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
