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 think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.
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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'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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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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With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
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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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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
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Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage.
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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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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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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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Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.'
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Reading is power. Reading is life.
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Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.
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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 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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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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I love reading almost as much as I love writing.
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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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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.