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.

The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.

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.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.