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" As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control. "
Gillian Flynn
Control
Really
Much
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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. "
Gillian Flynn
Wife
Missing
Happens
" 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. "
Gillian Flynn
Marriage
Yourself
Book
" I would love to do a full-scale graphic novel. "
Gillian Flynn
Graphic
Love
Novel
" I like the idea that people who see 'Gone Girl' are possibly going to come out with incredibly different reactions to it - not just between men and women, but if you are in a good relationship or a bad relationship. Everyone is going to bring their own bundle of prejudices and viewpoints and experiences to it. "
Gillian Flynn
Good
Women
Relationship
" There's nothing that can drive me from zero to crazy faster than a man who comes up to me and says, 'You know, I don't normally read books by women, but I really liked 'Gone Girl.'' "
Gillian Flynn
Crazy
Man
Women
" One of my biggest peeves is when the writer hasn't given you enough information to figure everything out. You should be able to go back to the beginning of 'Gone Girl,' after you've already read it and you know everything, and say, 'Check - check - yes, she gave us that information.' "
Gillian Flynn
You
Know
Information
" Ever since I was a child, I've been a huge comic and graphic novel fan, but I've never tried writing one before. "
Gillian Flynn
Never
Child
Before
" Some of the most disturbing, sick relationships I've witnessed are between long-time friends, and especially mothers and daughters. "
Gillian Flynn
Friends
Sick
Relationships
" 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. "
Gillian Flynn
Youth
Hair
Choices
" 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. "
Gillian Flynn
You
Feel
Love
" 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.' "
Gillian Flynn
Looks
Watches
Men
" 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. "
Gillian Flynn
Style
Movies
Know
" 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. "
Gillian Flynn
Two
Watch
Violence
" 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. "
Gillian Flynn
Son
Looking
Women
" 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. "
Gillian Flynn
You
Watch
Say
" I was very lucky to grow up in a household that really valued storytelling and didn't find it frivolous. "
Gillian Flynn
Grow Up
Find
Grow
" I was always someone who wanted to write. I was a real shy, bookworm-ish kid, and I think my earliest stuff was fairly dark. "
Gillian Flynn
Kid
Shy
Dark
" Writing has certainly helped me explore about 20,000 versions of my authentic self. I suppose that's what most writers discover if they write long enough: there are a lot of selves roaming around in there. "
Gillian Flynn
Long
Me
Writing
" 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. "
Gillian Flynn
Women
Think
People
" I could not have written a novel if I hadn't been a journalist first, because it taught me that there's no muse that's going to come down and bestow upon you the mood to write. You just have to do it. I'm definitely not precious. "
Gillian Flynn
Down
Me
Mood
" My dad was a film professor, so he would take me to wildly inappropriate movies. "
Gillian Flynn
He
Take
Professor
" I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!' "
Gillian Flynn
Give
Book
Feel
" A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of who women are, and it's so unaddressed. A vast amount of literature deals with cycles of violence about men, antiheroes. Women lack that vocabulary. "
Gillian Flynn
Always
Anger
Men
" I'm not much of a procedural person. That's not what I'm interested in. "
Gillian Flynn
Person
Procedural
Interested
" I was a quirky kid. I think that's the kind way of putting it. "
Gillian Flynn
I Think
Way
Think
" What I read and what I go to the movies for is not to find a best friend, not to find inspirations, not necessarily for a hero's journey. It's to be involved with characters that are maybe incredibly different from me, that may be incredibly bad but that feel authentic. "
Gillian Flynn
Hero
Journey
Best Friend
" Even good characters have their dark sides, and I think it is important that women aren't seen as innately good. "
Gillian Flynn
Women
Think
Important
" There are so many good books, I don't want to only read within one particular type. "
Gillian Flynn
Books
Many
Good
" In marriage, it's best to keep perspective. Get out of your head and get some perspective. "
Gillian Flynn
Perspective
Head
Best
" 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. "
Gillian Flynn
Kind
Kid
Imagination