Quotes from Karin Slaughter

buy her entry into normal society, but she hadn't realized what that society was like.

I've got my foot so far up your ass that you can taste my nail polish in the back of your throat.

There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.

I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.

I grew up having the library as the best place ever. I spent a lot of weekends there as a kid - my parents would drop me off and leave me there all day. I would just sit in the back and read whatever I could find.

My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.

My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.

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

It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.

I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.

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

I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.

I read a lot of true crime growing up - 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.

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

I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.

Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.

I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.

Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.