Quotes from Karin Slaughter

Love doesn't keep you in a constant state of turmoil. It gives you peace.

Having a teenager is like having a really, really shitty roommate. They eat all your food and steal your clothes and take money out of your purse and borrow your car without asking.

a Democrat is a Republican who's been through the criminal justice system.

Sara studied him. "Is that a Chihuahua behind your back?" "No, I'm just happy to see you" Sara gave him a confused smile, and he reluctantly showed her Betty.

It didn't take a Harvard economist to figure out that it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper spending money on helping keep kids safe when they were younger than it was to put them in jail when they were older. That was the American way, though. Spend a million dollars rescuing some kid who's fallen down a well, but God forbid you spend a hundred bucks up front to cap the well so the kid never falls down it in the first place.

Sometimes, even if you know the answer, you've got to let the other person take a shot. If they feel wrong all the time, they never get the chance to feel right.

because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her.

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.

When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.

People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.

I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.

In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.

When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.

What I know is the characters in a Southern town. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. And I know the neighborhoods, and I hopefully know the people, and I feel a connection to them. And I also feel like I'm honoring them when I talk about them.

It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.

Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

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

I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.

I love twins stories.

Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give it.

Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?

Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction.

Oh, I'm completely OCD about neatness.

Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.