339 Quotes by Karin Slaughter

No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines.

Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.'

My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.

People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.

In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.

Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction.

When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.

The most important lesson I have learned from spending years talking to law enforcement officers is that the vast majority of them really want to do a good job. They have a physical need to do a good job. And yet, we don't give them the resources that would help them.

'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.