Karin Slaughter

As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

— Karin Slaughter

You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time

— Karin Slaughter

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

— Karin Slaughter

The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

— Karin Slaughter

A good editor is one of the sharpest tools a writer can have in her toolbox.

— Karin Slaughter

I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.

— Karin Slaughter

I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.

— Karin Slaughter

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

— Karin Slaughter

I'm going to name a name: Janet Evanovich. She writes the same book over and over, and I read every single one…

— Karin Slaughter

Don't try to follow in my footsteps. Make your own footsteps! No one else can tell the stories that are inside of…

— Karin Slaughter

I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading…

— Karin Slaughter

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

— Karin Slaughter

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

— Karin Slaughter

“Jeffrey never understood how people could think a dead person was just sleeping. Death changed the air, charged it with something thick…

— Karin Slaughter

Men are more particular, and they're not going to grab something with a bodice-ripper cover on it.

— Karin Slaughter

Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

— Karin Slaughter

“Used to be, only bikers and outlaws had tattoos. They were so commonplace now that they weren’t even a statement. Unless the…

— Karin Slaughter

My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a…

— Karin Slaughter

When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all…

— Karin Slaughter

Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make…

— Karin Slaughter

'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,'…

— Karin Slaughter

When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing…

— Karin Slaughter

I'm afraid of the general things that everyone is afraid of: a bump in the night that could be a cat or…

— Karin Slaughter

“Moon was from somewhere up east, the kind of place where consonants took on a life of their own. In addition to…

— Karin Slaughter

“It didn't take a Harvard economist to figure out that it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper spending money on helping…

— Karin Slaughter

I'm always conscious when I'm writing a story that the women in my books need to save themselves. They don't need to…

— Karin Slaughter

“There were a few things she knew about Will Trent. He was tall, at least six-three, with a runner's lean body and…

— Karin Slaughter

Talking of the local Sheriff, Jake Valentine, tall and skinny and his wife Myra, "She was a short woman, maybe five feet…

— Karin Slaughter

“Or any number of the jobs she’d tried and failed at before seeing a story in The Atlanta Journal about women police…

— Karin Slaughter

I was with a real jerk after the first heartbreak, and once I did the prerequisite eating an entire cake and singing…

— Karin Slaughter

“a Democrat is a Republican who’s been through the criminal justice system.”

— Karin Slaughter

Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage.

— Karin Slaughter

“Nothing ever truly faded. Time only dulled the edges.”

— Karin Slaughter

Usually, guys, when something bad happens, they punish someone else.

— Karin Slaughter

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

— Karin Slaughter

You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.

— Karin Slaughter

Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction.

— Karin Slaughter

When a woman creates an unlikable character, a lot of people think it's a mistake.

— Karin Slaughter

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

— Karin Slaughter

“He shrugged. “Are you going to answer me?” “You told me to shut up.”

— Karin Slaughter