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Reading is power. Reading is life.

I grew up watching the 'People's Choice Awards.'

Karin Slaughter

I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?

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I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.

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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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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.

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

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

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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.

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My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.

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Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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

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The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.'

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Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

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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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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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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.

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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 want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.

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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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If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.

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It was always my dream to write for a living.

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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.

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I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

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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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I love reading almost as much as I love writing.

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

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

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Random House is definitely invested in keeping libraries healthy.

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I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.

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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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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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Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.'

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