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A good editor is one of the sharpest tools a writer can have in her toolbox.

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Karin Slaughter
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 6
Novelist
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Covington
Georgia
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It really sucks getting older. Sometimes I'll be walking along and I'll just glance over my shoulder to make sure nothing has fallen off.
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A lot of men just don't read. They don't read fiction at all.
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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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Being a Southerner, Im interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.
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Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
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Usually, guys, when something bad happens, they punish someone else.
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I never felt isolated I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it.
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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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When a woman creates an unlikable character, a lot of people think it's a mistake.
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Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.
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I am a voracious reader myself. I don't stick to one genre. My only criteria is that it's a good story. I try to bring that to my work because I think people can read your excitement about a story.
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You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.
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Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going.
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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'm not somebody who believes in evil.
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