Karin Slaughter
Karin Slaughter
Karin Slaughteris an American crime writer, whose first novel Blindsightedbecame an international success, was published in almost 30 languages, and made the Crime Writers' Association's Dagger Award shortlist for "Best Thriller Debut" of 2001. She has sold more than 30 million copies of her books, and is published in 35 languages...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 January 1971
CountryUnited States of America
busted chin dad left open pass scar straight trying
I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.
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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.
believe evil
I'm not somebody who believes in evil.
thinking environmental-factors people
I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.
thinking england fiction
I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.
thinking issues stones
A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.
mistake character thinking
When a woman creates an unlikable character, a lot of people think it's a mistake.
reading crime
I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.
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I can’t—” Lena repeated. “I can’t do it. I can’t live without him.” Sara gently pulled her hand away from Jared’s. She smoothed down the sheet, tucked it in close around his side. She looked at Lena—really looked at her straight in the eye. “Good,” Sara told her. “Now you know how it feels.
historical fiction historical-fiction
I've always been drawn to historical fiction.
writing wind southern
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next Gone With the Wind.
wind gone cold
Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.
horrible happens one-time
Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.