Character Quote by Karin Slaughter Download Open image “As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.” — Karin Slaughter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Characters I love Love Obstacles Southerner
Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character. — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern. — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic.... — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I do play a lot of Southerners because I grew up in the South, but they're still diverse. — Carrie Preston Copy Share Image
I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal. My challenge… — Mary Alice Monroe Copy Share Image
I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern. — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
I like being Southern; I like going to Cracker Barrel - I mean, that's just how I am. — Jessie James Decker 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 Image
I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
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 Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
