Karin Slaughter Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.

  Karin Slaughter

  Wall, Twenties, Cockroaches

• I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

  Karin Slaughter

  Thinking, Fiction, Literature

  Source: content.time.com

• A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.

  Karin Slaughter

  Thinking, Issues, Use

  Source: content.time.com

• I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.

  Karin Slaughter

  Reading, Fiction, Crime

  Source: www.avclub.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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