Karin Slaughter Quotes
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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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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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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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 think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage.
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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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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If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.
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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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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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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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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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Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
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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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As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.
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Reading is power. Reading is life.
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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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Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.'
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Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.
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As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the street so that the generations served by that library grow up to be adults who contribute not just to their local communities but to the world.
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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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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.