Quotes from Karin Slaughter

You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel.

Women know how to scare other women.

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.

Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.

For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.

As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the street so that the generations served by that library grow up to be adults who contribute not just to their local communities but to the world.

I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.

I grew up watching the 'People's Choice Awards.'

Libraries are the backbone of our education system.

The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage.

My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.

Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction.

I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

If you wear them outside, they stop being pyjamas. I wear mine to the mail box, which is right in front of my house - that's my limit. Anything else is wrong.

I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.

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.

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 any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff.

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.

I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.

I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.

I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?