Karin Slaughter Quotes

You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.

Don't try to follow in my footsteps. Make your own footsteps! No one else can tell the stories that are inside of you except for you.

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.

I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it.

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

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.

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

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.

Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

I don't understand people who say they're bored. Look out your window.

I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.

Ultimately, I'm in control of what's going on in the books, so I can back off, if it's scaring me too much.

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

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

When a woman creates an unlikable character, a lot of people think it's a mistake.

I'm not somebody who believes in evil.

A good editor is one of the sharpest tools a writer can have in her toolbox.

I think a lot of guys who are on the internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.

A lot of men just don't read. They don't read fiction at all.

You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time

Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read' pile.

sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.

Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It’s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you breathless.

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next Gone With the Wind.

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.

I am a voracious reader myself. I don't stick to one genre. My only criteria is that it's a good story. I try to bring that to my work because I think people can read your excitement about a story.

Usually, guys, when something bad happens, they punish someone else.

Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going.

Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.

If you're a smart guy, you should really try to find out what women are thinking. I mean, we are 51 percent of the population.

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.

It really sucks getting older. Sometimes I'll be walking along and I'll just glance over my shoulder to make sure nothing has fallen off.

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.

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

I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

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.

I've always preferred crazy to stupid. Stupid can break your heart.

Trust me, sweetheart, there is a reason centuries of fathers have fought brutal wars to protect the concept of Immaculate Conception.

She felt it snap into her head like a slide loading into a projector.

Her wedding ring, her gentle brush-offs, and her outright rejection had been minor obstacles compared to the big no of another man kissing her cheek.