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" I get really tense during the first draft. Really tense. That's not great for my family, because the first draft usually takes about a year. "
Gillian Flynn
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" I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spiders. "
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" I love video games. "
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" I'm probably a guy's girl, although I hate that phrase. I tend to have more close male friends than I do female friends, and I always have. I would say that of my 10 close friends, seven are men. "
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" I've always been a mystery fan. My very first grown-up book, I distinctly remember going to the library and my mom helping me pick out an Agatha Christie book. I was in fifth grade or something and very proud of being in the adult fiction aisles. I tore through 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles.' "
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" I was very lucky to grow up in a household that really valued storytelling and didn't find it frivolous. "
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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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" I have two kids, and anyone who has a kid in order to feel loved is going to be in trouble because kids are first and foremost all about themselves. They'll say they love you, but 10 seconds later they'll turn on you. "
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" I love the way the Victorians found a way to put faces in everything: you know, furniture and marble and, you know, everywhere you turn around - the banister, you know, there's someone looking at you. "
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" There's a book by Anne Rivers Siddons called 'The House Next Door' that I just think is one of the all-time great haunted-house stories. I think that's one of the all-time greatest. "
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" I think everyone self-mythologizes. "
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" I watched 'Psycho' a million times. "
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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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" I've never been interested in watching or reading anything because it's the hero's story. I don't feel the need to be inspired by the character or learn a lesson. I feel the need to be engaged by them. "
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" My favorite game was one I invented with my cousins called Mean Aunt Rosie, where I was a deranged maiden aunt who chased them around the house. "
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" I do love 'The Turn of the Screw' - I just think that one's always so disturbing. "
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" I like westerns, fantasy, sci-fi, graphic novels, thrillers, and I try to avoid the word 'genre' altogether. A good book is a good book. "
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" I grew up in a house full of books. "
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" I was very interested in what happens to the husband when his wife goes missing, and how quickly they can be turned into heroes and villains. "
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" Even good characters have their dark sides, and I think it is important that women aren't seen as innately good. "
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" No one watches 'Taxi Driver' and says, 'Oh, it's a male-oriented film.' No one looks at nine-tenths of the films out there that are headlined by men and say, 'It's a male-oriented film.' "
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" I want books to give me insight into the way people's brains work and hearts work, and that's what engages me. "
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" Very quickly, I discovered I did not have what it takes to be a good crime reporter: I was too unassertive and a little bit wimpy. It was very clear that was not what I was going to do, but I loved journalism, and I'm the daughter of a film professor, and my mom taught reading. "
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" The funny thing, I guess, is that my husband ended up being the muse of a book about the worst marriage in the world, because if he hadn't consistently said, 'Don't censor yourself, don't worry about me' - if he'd been anxious and worried about it - then it would never have gotten written. "
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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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" The newspaper industry was built on the penny dreadfuls. "
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" I am not someone who has hobbies. I have tried knitting, and I can't figure it out. "
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" Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself. "
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" I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way. "
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" As a kid in the eighties, I didn't need much disposable income. I went to Catholic school - white shirt, plaid skirt - so fashion choices were limited. But youth finds a way. For me and my schoolmates, neon argyle socks were a crucial barometer of coolness. Hair ribbons, too, and they didn't come cheap. "
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