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I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
Author
Film Critic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Critic
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Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.
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People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.
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I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'
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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.
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I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.
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My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
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I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative ways to help externalize what they're thinking.
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What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.
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I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.
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Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times
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Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?
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Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.
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