Quotes by Karin Slaughter

Karin Slaughter

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

Issues

Thinking

Use

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

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Sex

Violence

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

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Wind

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

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Horrible

One Time

I can’t—” Lena repeated. “I can’t do it. I can’t live without him.” Sara gently pulled her hand away from Jared’s. She smoothed down the sheet, tucked it in close around his side. She looked at Lena—really looked at her straight in the eye. “Good,” Sara told her. “Now you know how it feels.

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Hands

Sides

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

Crime

Fiction

Reading

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.

Guy

Language

Thinking

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.

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Thinking

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.

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Losing

Night

I’m not somebody who believes in evil.

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Quotes by Karin Slaughter

Karin Slaughter

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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’m not somebody who believes in evil.

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