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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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I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
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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 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'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.
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To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
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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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A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.
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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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Safer to be feared than loved.
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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.
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There are no really new stories anymore.
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I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.
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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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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've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
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I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.
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The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.
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