Karin Slaughter Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.

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

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm afraid of the general things that everyone is afraid of: a bump in the night that could be a cat or Death dragging his sickle across the room; losing my health; becoming homeless, never meeting George Clooney.

I was with a real jerk after the first heartbreak, and once I did the prerequisite eating an entire cake and singing "All By Myself" in the shower, I realized that people treat you badly when you let them, and that I had to respect myself and not let anyone else treat me that way again. If someone really loves you, they are your biggest champion, not your biggest detractor.

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

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

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

The plot is very important because writers have to play fair with their readers, but no one would care about the plot if the character work wasn't there. So, basically every book I work on starts with me thinking not just about the bad thing that's going to happen, but how that bad thing is going to ripple through the community, the family of the victim, and the lives of the investigators. I am keenly aware when I'm working that the crimes I am writing about have happened to real people. I take that very seriously.