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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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But they soften you in ways you can't imagine. It's so unexpected. They just smooth out your hard lines.
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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People just dump their trash here and don't even care about who has to pick it up. Like they think the trash fairy's gonna do it or something.
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A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.
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No matter what happened to you, no matter what horrors you endured when you were taken away, you will always be my pretty little girl.
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Reading is power. Reading is life.
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You are an enigma wrapped in a sticky bun.
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Because I said so." She paused again. "Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.
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It was odd how you could love something so much, but forget about it when it wasn't right under your nose.
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People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same.
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I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.
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She had felt capable of anything.
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Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read' pile.
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Jeffrey felt too blindsided
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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.
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Broken:Never underestimate the power of a shared history. — Karin Slaughter
I still want it to die. Like immediately. With fire.
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It's very important for your life to have meaning. Even on the days it makes you unhappy, you still need a purpose.
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The older sister could have been an overachiever who cast the kind of shadow in which nothing could grow.
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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.
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My court-appointed therapist would say I was trying to fill a hole." "Is that what you call your vagina?" Claire chuckled under her breath.
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No amount of flowers or pretty compliments could ever measure up to a man who did housework.
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As Kate had told her Oma the night before, there was no society more viciously controlled by rumor than your local police force.
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I loved him. I know you don't want to believe that, but I really, truly, giddy, heart-breaking, longing, achingly loved him.
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If you wanted to know shit about a woman, all you had to do was ask the woman who was pretending to be her friend.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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I had experienced a TIA, which of course further infuriated your mother (she has always been hostile to abbreviation).
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Will had found out the hard way that it's nearly impossible to go to sleep with a flatulent Chihuahua sharing your pillow.
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way.
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A man who has grown up in an orphanage cannot take a dog to the pound.Even if it is a Chihuahua. — Karin Slaughter
He shrugged. "Are you going to answer me?" "You told me to shut up.
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The only reason my daughter has not come home is because someone is keeping her." Keeping her.
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[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.
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Nancy's last sentence is on the last page in your file. There is nothing more we know. As the sheriff might say, we don't have anything farther.
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Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.
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Sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.
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He was playing chess and she was sucking at checkers.
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Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.
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The spiral stairs looked like a robot's asshole.
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Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.
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snorted coke because a boyfriend told her
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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Trust me, sweetheart, there is a reason centuries of fathers have fought brutal wars to protect the concept of Immaculate Conception.
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She felt it snap into her head like a slide loading into a projector.
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If you have to say you're not doing something, then you probably are.
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I'm not somebody who believes in evil.
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I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.
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Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful. Claire
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Dyadic completion," Paul would've told Claire. "The human brain tends to assume that, if there's a victim, there has to be a villain.
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You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.
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Claire jumped right into the story. "There was a Thunderbolt cable
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When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.
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Holy shit." Nolan's tone was reverential. Claire had seen men get harder over Paul's garage than they ever got over a woman.
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You are my child. I am your mother." Helen sounded resolute. "I won't apologize for doing my job.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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I've always been drawn to historical fiction.
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Forever was never as long as you thought it was.
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I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
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Paul. She hadn't just watched him die. She had taken in his death like a hummingbird drawing nectar.
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Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.
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You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.
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Dee came out of her room and gave Lydia the greatest gift a teenage daughter can ever give her mother: she had agreed with her.
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Why did it have to be her?
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Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.
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It was like she was standing on the beach in the middle of a hurricane.
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My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
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I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.
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I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.
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The thing about having a bad reputation is that folks will believe just about anything people say about you.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
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the great thing about lying was people believed it so long as the lie was close enough to the truth. Lena
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You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time
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My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
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Ultimately, I'm in control of what's going on in the books, so I can back off, if it's scaring me too much.
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Place. This is how
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Slicing off your retinas and sticking them into
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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cunt on the blackboard.
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He had always told her that winners only competed with themselves.
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Dr. Monroe and I realized very gradually that drug addiction is a terminal disease. It is a cancer that eats families alive.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.
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Older and she always got to drive. She opened
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.
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