Writing Quotes by Karin Slaughter

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

— Karin Slaughter

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

— Karin Slaughter

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

— Karin Slaughter

I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.

— Karin Slaughter

I love reading almost as much as I love writing.

— Karin Slaughter

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

— Karin Slaughter

When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.

— Karin Slaughter

Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.

— Karin Slaughter

I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that.

— Karin Slaughter

I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about…

— Karin Slaughter

“To all the librarians in the world on behalf of all the kids y’all helped grow up to be writers”

— Karin Slaughter

I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually,…

— Karin Slaughter

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

— Karin Slaughter

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

— Karin Slaughter

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

— 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

It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or…

— 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

I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no…

— Karin Slaughter

I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue,…

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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life…

— Karin Slaughter

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

I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to…

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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least…

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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…

— Karin Slaughter

The plot is very important because writers have to play fair with their readers, but no one would care about the plot…

— Karin Slaughter

It was always my dream to write for a living.

— Karin Slaughter

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

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

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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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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.

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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…

— Karin Slaughter

I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a…

— Karin Slaughter

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

— Karin Slaughter

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

— Karin Slaughter

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as…

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I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.

— Karin Slaughter

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to…

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

— Karin Slaughter

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

— Karin Slaughter