Karin Slaughter Quotes
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Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read' pile.
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I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.
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Ultimately, I'm in control of what's going on in the books, so I can back off, if it's scaring me too much.
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It really sucks getting older. Sometimes I'll be walking along and I'll just glance over my shoulder to make sure nothing has fallen off.
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I am a voracious reader myself. I don't stick to one genre. My only criteria is that it's a good story. I try to bring that to my work because I think people can read your excitement about a story.
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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'm not somebody who believes in evil.
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sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.
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I think a lot of guys who are on the internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.
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Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
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Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.
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Don't try to follow in my footsteps. Make your own footsteps! No one else can tell the stories that are inside of you except for you.
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A lot of men just don't read. They don't read fiction at all.
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People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.
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I was with a real jerk after the first heartbreak, and once I did the prerequisite eating an entire cake and singing "All By Myself" in the shower, I realized that people treat you badly when you let them, and that I had to respect myself and not let anyone else treat me that way again. If someone really loves you, they are your biggest champion, not your biggest detractor.
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Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It’s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you breathless.
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If you're a smart guy, you should really try to find out what women are thinking. I mean, we are 51 percent of the population.
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Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.
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Talking of the local Sheriff, Jake Valentine, tall and skinny and his wife Myra, "She was a short woman, maybe five feet tall in her socks, the top of her head not quite reaching Jake's chest. What she lacked in height she made up for in girth. Jeffrey guessed she was at least a hundred pounds overweight. Standing side by side, the Valentines looked like the living embodiment of the number ten.
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You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.
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I'm afraid of the general things that everyone is afraid of: a bump in the night that could be a cat or Death dragging his sickle across the room; losing my health; becoming homeless, never meeting George Clooney.
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As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.
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When a woman creates an unlikable character, a lot of people think it's a mistake.
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[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.
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First and foremost, I want people to have a good read, because I want everything I write to entertain people. There are always different layers to the story, though, so if you want to think about social justice, or sexism or racism or homophobia, or really drill down into why the world is a better place when the police force looks like the people they are policing, then that's there, too.
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I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.
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Usually, guys, when something bad happens, they punish someone else.
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I can’t—” Lena repeated. “I can’t do it. I can’t live without him.” Sara gently pulled her hand away from Jared’s. She smoothed down the sheet, tucked it in close around his side. She looked at Lena—really looked at her straight in the eye. “Good,” Sara told her. “Now you know how it feels.
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Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.
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