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" I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or done in a realistic way. "
Gillian Flynn
Loved
Done
Fantasy
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" Women shouldn't be expected to only play nurturing, kind caretakers. "
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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. "
Gillian Flynn
People
Work
Want
" Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted. "
Gillian Flynn
Women
Taken For Granted
Men
" The best crime reporters don't mind charging in - but they also know how to do it as decent human beings. "
Gillian Flynn
Decent
Human
Mind
" I watched 'Psycho' a million times. "
Gillian Flynn
Times
Watched
Million
" 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
Draft
Family
Year
" 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. "
Gillian Flynn
Time
Dark
Goal
" 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. "
Gillian Flynn
Like
Party
People
" There are no really new stories anymore. "
Gillian Flynn
Really
Anymore
Stories
" I always loved scary movies, and my dad was a film professor. "
Gillian Flynn
Dad
Film
Always
" 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
" My first job had me miscast as a bubbly shopgirl; I was pathologically shy and, thus, tended to replace human speech with excessive head gestures. It was like being waited on by Harpo Marx. "
Gillian Flynn
Job
Shy
Me
" The skill set that lets you be alone in your pyjamas for two years writing a book is not the same skill set that lets you go on television shows like 'The View' or 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.' "
Gillian Flynn
You
Writing
Night
" I am a great believer in jobs for teens. They teach important life lessons, build character, and inflict just the right amount of humiliation necessary for future success in the working world. "
Gillian Flynn
Life
Great
Future
" It's important to tell stories, and it's a worthwhile thing to do. "
Gillian Flynn
Tell
Stories
Important
" 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
" 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
" There are so many good books, I don't want to only read within one particular type. "
Gillian Flynn
Books
Many
Good
" I've always read in order to figure out people more, and that includes bad people and good people. "
Gillian Flynn
Good
Good People
People
" You have to be pretty selfless to have a child, who doesn't give a lot back to you. "
Gillian Flynn
Selfless
Pretty
Give
" I was a quirky kid. I think that's the kind way of putting it. "
Gillian Flynn
I Think
Way
Think
" My interest is in turning over a rock and seeing what's underneath. It's a personality trait more than anything; it's what made me want to become a crime reporter, even though I was not suited for it personality-wise. "
Gillian Flynn
Seeing
Rock
Personality
" I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spiders. "
Gillian Flynn
Hobby
Little
Nice
" 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? "
Gillian Flynn
Mystery
People
Writing
" 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 love 'Fatal Attraction.' "
Gillian Flynn
Fatal
Love
Attraction
" In marriage, it's best to keep perspective. Get out of your head and get some perspective. "
Gillian Flynn
Perspective
Head
Best
" Libraries are filled with stories on generations of brutal men, trapped in a cycle of aggression. I wanted to write about the violence of women. "
Gillian Flynn
Write
Women
Violence
" The first time my mom read my very first book, she was like, 'I'm not gonna belabor this. It's not a big deal. But I have to ask the question: Is everything okay?' "
Gillian Flynn
Question
She
Book
" 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. "
Gillian Flynn
Way
Love
Know