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Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.

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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
Sometimes
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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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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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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 think there is something very relatable in the idea that you hit a certain age, later in your life, where you realize you have to pick up the rug and see what's underneath it and deal with stuff.
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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 can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.
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Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.
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I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.
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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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Safer to be feared than loved.
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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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To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.
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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 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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I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.
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I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.
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I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
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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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I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.
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