Karin Slaughter Quotes
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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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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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I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
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My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
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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 think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?
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I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.
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I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk.
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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 sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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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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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.
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Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?