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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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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
Author
Film Critic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Critic
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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Crime
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I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
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Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.
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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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I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.
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I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.
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I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
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Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
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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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It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.
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People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about.
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It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
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Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.
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It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.
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I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.
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People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.
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Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.
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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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And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.
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A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
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