Karin Slaughter Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

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

  Karin Slaughter

  Writing, Wind, Southern

• 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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• First and foremost, I want people to have a good read, because I want everything I write to entertain people. There are always different layers to the story, though, so if you want to think about social justice, or sexism or racism or homophobia, or really drill down into why the world is a better place when the police force looks like the people they are policing, then that's there, too.

  Karin Slaughter

  Writing, Thinking, Justice

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