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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.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
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
Writing
Unpublished
Talented
Million
Writers
Gets
Millions
Stop
Hard

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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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Problems always start long before you really, really see them.
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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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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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The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.
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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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Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.
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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'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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I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'
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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 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'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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I would have done anything to feel real again.
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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'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.
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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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She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
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