Karin Slaughter

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

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.

I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.