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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.
Gillian Flynn
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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
Author
Film Critic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Critic
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Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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Unpublished
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Writers
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Millions
Stop
Hard
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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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Safer to be feared than loved.
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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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I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival
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Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.
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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 can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.
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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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There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
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It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
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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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Problems always start long before you really, really see them.
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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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Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.
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Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times
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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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Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.
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A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
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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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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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