Karin Slaughter Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.

  Karin Slaughter

  Children, Book, Giving

• Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

  Karin Slaughter

  Book, Albums, Chapters

  "Will eBooks Create An Elite Reading Class?" by Karin Slaughter, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2010.

• Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.

  Karin Slaughter

  Girl, Country, Book

• 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.

  Karin Slaughter

  Book, Too Much, Ifs

  Source: content.time.com

• The plot is very important because writers have to play fair with their readers, but no one would care about the plot if the character work wasn't there. So, basically every book I work on starts with me thinking not just about the bad thing that's going to happen, but how that bad thing is going to ripple through the community, the family of the victim, and the lives of the investigators. I am keenly aware when I'm working that the crimes I am writing about have happened to real people. I take that very seriously.

  Karin Slaughter

  Real, Book, Character

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• Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It’s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you breathless.

  Karin Slaughter

  Book, Long, Gone

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