American - Writer | January 6, 1971 -
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
Karin Slaughter
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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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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines.
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There aren't many people in the world who can say that they are doing the job they've wanted to do since childhood, so in that regard, I feel incredibly fortunate.
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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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I've never purposefully based a character on any one person I know, but I'm certain there are amalgamations that exist.
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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 I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
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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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As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.
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I grew up watching the 'People's Choice Awards.'
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I read a lot of true crime growing up - 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
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