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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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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
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Gillian Schieber Flynn
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Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
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My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.
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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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I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.
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I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make up for the fake charm, and then I’ve basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I’m dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me. There’s a bowler and jazz hands and lots of teeth.
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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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To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
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I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.
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I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real.
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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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Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)
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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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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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I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
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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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She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
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A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
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I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.
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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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