Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live. Karin Slaughter Read Quote
The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O’Connor’s short story collection ‘A Good Man Is Hard To Find.’ Karin Slaughter Read Quote
I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that. Karin Slaughter Read Quote
As a writer, I’ve always felt it’s my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women. Karin Slaughter Read Quote
As awful as crime can be, it’s what happens afterward – the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other – that alters people. Karin Slaughter Read Quote
No crime lab in the world looks like the ‘CSI’ ones because there’s simply not the money for all those fancy machines. Karin Slaughter Read Quote
There aren’t many people in the world who can say that they are doing the job they’ve wanted to do since childhood, so in that regard, I feel incredibly fortunate. Karin Slaughter Read Quote
I’m over the word ‘like’ in conversation, and ‘you know’ seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I’m writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that’s how people talk. Karin Slaughter Read Quote
If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up. Karin Slaughter Read Quote
