I always say ‘thriller;’ if they see you’re a woman – and you’re a blond woman – people assume you’re writing about cats and romances where somebody has died. – Karin Slaughter
Being a Southerner, I’m interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting. – Karin Slaughter
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. – Karin Slaughter
I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I’ve lived here for so long. – Karin Slaughter
I’m really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don’t smoke or drink. I mean, I’ll eat a cupcake. I’m just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing. – Karin Slaughter
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. – Karin Slaughter
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. – Karin Slaughter
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. – Karin Slaughter
My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes. – Karin Slaughter
I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody. – Karin Slaughter
I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe’s death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died. – Karin Slaughter
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. – Karin Slaughter
It’s hard because people often don’t recognise shyness; they think it’s just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I’m meeting my readers at author events, because I don’t want them to think I’m snooty or rude. – Karin Slaughter
I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life. – Karin Slaughter
I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. – Karin Slaughter
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! – Karin Slaughter
Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches. – Karin Slaughter
If you wear them outside, they stop being pyjamas. I wear mine to the mail box, which is right in front of my house – that’s my limit. Anything else is wrong. – Karin Slaughter
Flannery O’Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn’t understand what she was doing. I didn’t see any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff. – Karin Slaughter