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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

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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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I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.
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I would have done anything to feel real again.
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We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.
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There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.
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I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
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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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I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival
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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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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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Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.
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To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
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I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
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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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Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.
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Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
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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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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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