339 Quotes by Karin Slaughter

I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.

When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.

When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.

I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!

If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.

I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.