Karin Slaughter Quotes
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The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
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With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
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When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.
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Oh, I'm completely OCD about neatness.
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My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
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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 read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
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I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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The most important lesson I have learned from spending years talking to law enforcement officers is that the vast majority of them really want to do a good job. They have a physical need to do a good job. And yet, we don't give them the resources that would help them.
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It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.
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Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.
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I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that.
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Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
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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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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found my way and realized that wasn't me.
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I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.
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Reading is power. Reading is life.
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What I know is the characters in a Southern town. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. And I know the neighborhoods, and I hopefully know the people, and I feel a connection to them. And I also feel like I'm honoring them when I talk about them.
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As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older sisters, so of course the sisters in 'Pretty Girls' share some similarities to my own.
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I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction.