Karin Slaughter Quotes

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Karin Slaughter

Profession : Writer

Birth : January 6, 1971

If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.

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Women know how to scare other women.

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Anyone who's been to high school with teenage girls knows how horrible girls can be.

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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

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Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.

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Random House is definitely invested in keeping libraries healthy.

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It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'

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Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.

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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.

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I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry.

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I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.

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Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.

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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.

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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.

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Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give it.

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Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction.

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Libraries are the backbone of our education system.

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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.

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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

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I grew up having the library as the best place ever. I spent a lot of weekends there as a kid - my parents would drop me off and leave me there all day. I would just sit in the back and read whatever I could find.

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