Karin Slaughter Quotes
I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
Quotes to Explore
-
I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
-
I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
-
I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
-
One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
-
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
-
I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
-
I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
-
We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.
-
The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
-
When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
-
You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.
-
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
-
If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
-
But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.
-
I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
-
I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.
-
Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.
-
One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
-
Ronald Coase, in his classic 1937 paper on 'The Nature of the Firm,' was the first to bring the concept of transaction costs to bear on the study of firm and market organization.
-
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
-
I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.
-
The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
-
You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
-
I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
