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
believed boys dad date scaring
My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
age contract
I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
boundaries fiction polite pushing society
Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
love people terrific writers
People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.
books interested loved
I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.
revelation
Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I didn't see any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff.
good
When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
people
I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.
entertainment genre learning understanding violent walk
I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
front house mail mine wear
If you wear them outside, they stop being pyjamas. I wear mine to the mail box, which is right in front of my house - that's my limit. Anything else is wrong.
book too-much ifs
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.