Karin Slaughter Quotes

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Karin Slaughter

Profession : Writer

Birth : January 6, 1971

I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

Karin Slaughter

Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.

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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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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.

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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

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When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.

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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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Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.

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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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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

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I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.

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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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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

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I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

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When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.

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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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I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.

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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 think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.

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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.

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