Karin Slaughter Quotes

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Karin Slaughter

Profession : Writer

Birth : January 6, 1971

I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.

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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.

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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

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Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.

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Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

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My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.

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I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.

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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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Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

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I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way.

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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 busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.

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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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If you wear them outside, they stop being pyjamas. I wear mine to the mail box, which is right in front of my house - that's my limit. Anything else is wrong.

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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 am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.

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Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.

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Reading is power. Reading is 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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