I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.' — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.' — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life,… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share
I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share
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… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share
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… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share
“To all the librarians in the world on behalf of all the kids y’all helped grow up to be writers” — Karin Slaughter Copy Share
“Moon was from somewhere up east, the kind of place where consonants took on a life of their own. In addition to this, she… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share
Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share
Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share
“I’ve got to figure out before I die whether I want to be happy or I want to be right.” — Karin Slaughter Copy Share
Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share
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… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share
If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share
“a large chifforobe wedged into a small closet that their mother said they’d have to pay Tom Robinson a nickel to bust up.” — Karin Slaughter Copy Share
