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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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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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I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
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Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.
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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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There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
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Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.
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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 think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.
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I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
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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've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.
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It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
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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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