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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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" 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 not always someone who wanted to get married or thought I would get married, so being a true writer, I was always navel-gazing: 'What are good marriages? What are bad marriages?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't think I'm naturally a good person. I think some people have an innate goodness to them, and I am sort of proud of the fact that I kind of keep myself in check, probably because I have awesome parents. "

" I always loved scary movies, and my dad was a film professor. "

" It's important to tell stories, and it's a worthwhile thing to do. "

" 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. "

" To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I love video games. "

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

" I think it's a very female trait to want to please men and to want to be considered the Cool Girl. And if you take that to the farthest reach, where you're actually selling yourself out and degrading yourself by doing things you don't actually want to do, only in order for this man to think that you do, that's a very perverse thing. "

" 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. "

" Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a novel. It's just a book. "

" Kansas City is truly an awesome town. "

" 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 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. "

" My dad was a film professor, so he would take me to wildly inappropriate movies. "

" I think women do have that fatal streak to them that's partly because it's been romanticized, the martyr complex - 'Look what you did to me!' "

" In college, I discovered the Joyce Carol Oates short story 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' which is definitely one of the most incredibly unnerving, frightening short stories ever written. "

" I had been laid off from 'Entertainment Weekly 'right before I started writing 'Gone Girl.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" I liked the idea of a whodunit revolving around a marriage. "

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

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