339 Quotes by Karin Slaughter

Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.

I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.

I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry.

I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.

Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.

There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.

Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

I grew up having the library as the best place ever. I spent a lot of weekends there as a kid - my parents would drop me off and leave me there all day. I would just sit in the back and read whatever I could find.