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" A great thriller, to me, is more about creating a sense of unease: a queasiness that comes with knowing something is not quite right. "

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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.' "

" For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare. "

" In marriage, it's best to keep perspective. Get out of your head and get some perspective. "

" I assumed that 'Gone Girl' would do incrementally better than 'Dark Places,' and that would be great. So the fact that it did more than that was kind of an incredibly pleasant surprise. "

" 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. "

" I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or done in a realistic way. "

" I was very lucky to grow up in a household that really valued storytelling and didn't find it frivolous. "

" 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. "

" I just think - the Midwest, if you grow up there, you're deathly afraid of putting on airs. Any time a Midwesterner criticizes someone, it's usually involving some form of being too big for your britches. "

" Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It's invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hair, spit and nails - a much more fearsome thing to watch than two dudes clobbering each other. "

" I think that women really entwine with the people that they become close to in a way that men don't - and so, when they are forced to disentwine, you can't remove the vines without doing some damage. "

" I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie. "

" Ever since I was a child, I've been a huge comic and graphic novel fan, but I've never tried writing one before. "

" I do love 'The Turn of the Screw' - I just think that one's always so disturbing. "

" As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control. "

" I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spiders. "

" There are no really new stories anymore. "

" That's always been part of my goal - to show the dark side of women. Men write about bad men all the time, and they're called antiheroes. "

" Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself. "

" 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. "

" I am not someone who has hobbies. I have tried knitting, and I can't figure it out. "

" It seems like the darker the books are, the nicer the person is. People say it's the romance writers you've got to watch out for. "

" I do spend - I feel like I spend about my first 20 minutes at any cocktail party convincing people that I'm not going to harm them in some way. "

" The number of mystery and horror writers I've met who are just the sanest and the nicest people... it's crazy. Maybe it's because the writing gets something out of the system? "

" What I tell myself is that there is never going to be another 'Gone Girl' for me. I mean, I really believe that. I think I'll write other good books; I have faith in that. "

" I tend to write about dark things that happen in a very domestic setting 'cause that, to me, is much scarier than the unknown. "

" There's nothing lovelier than having a newborn and still plotting a dark conspiracy. "

" I've wondered if 'Harry Potter' would have been as big if it was 'Harriet Potter.' Now that I've written a screenplay - and raising a son in particular - I'm looking at story content and realizing how limited women are onscreen. "

" The best crime reporters don't mind charging in - but they also know how to do it as decent human beings. "

" I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone. "