American - Writer | January 6, 1971 -
Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
Karin Slaughter
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I didn't see the - any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff.
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I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading.
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Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.'
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel.
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