Karin Slaughter Quotes

American - Writer | January 6, 1971 -

I grew up reading thrillers. Honestly, I was always drawn to the very detailed ones like Patricia Cornwell. I love details.

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

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Women know how to scare other women.

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Anyone who's been to high school with teenage girls knows how horrible girls can be.

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Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.

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Random House is definitely invested in keeping libraries healthy.

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It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'

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Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.

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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.

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I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry.

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

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Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.

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