Karin Slaughter Quotes
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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've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.
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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 read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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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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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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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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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 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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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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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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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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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.
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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?
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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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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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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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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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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I didn't see any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff.