Karin Slaughter Quotes
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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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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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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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Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.
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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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Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
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Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.'
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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 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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Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage.
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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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With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
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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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Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.
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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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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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A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so much by the end of the class that I never wanted to see it again.
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It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.
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I love reading almost as much as I love writing.