Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. Karin Slaughter Read Quote
Readers are very, very savvy, and I don’t want to insult them by making them think I’m too lazy to get it right. Karin Slaughter Read Quote
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 the – any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff. Karin Slaughter Read Quote
I never really fitted in, because I’ve always been interested in really dark things. Karin Slaughter Read Quote
My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading. Karin Slaughter Read Quote
When you write as a woman, there’s this feeling there’s going to be a softness. Karin Slaughter Read Quote
