Quotes About Karin Slaughter

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

You don't understand how the world works. That there are consequences you can't predict. That bad choices, bad deeds, can corrupt you.

Dyadic completion," Paul would've told Claire. "The human brain tends to assume that, if there's a victim, there has to be a villain.

A possum stared at me through the door all night." "That's Bill." Charlie turned on the giant television. "He's my lover.

The Peeping Tom's name was Gerald Scott. His son is your baby sister's new boyfriend.

seemed to match the erratic

the gate as just another gate. She reminded

Her capacity for detail was astounding, if not highly annoying during arguments.

Yes." Claire was tired of his questions, which were made even more grating by his flat, midwestern accent.

Karin Slaughter Was 20 Years Ahead of Our True Crime Obsession" by Bustle

She called him Bartleby, after the well-known scrivener: "pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn." I likened him more to some form of rat terrier: arrogant.

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

I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.

I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!

I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.

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.

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

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction.

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.

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.

I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.